The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... Shakespeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their background , and the stars of the dead calices of flowers , and every withered stem and stubble ...
... Shakespeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their background , and the stars of the dead calices of flowers , and every withered stem and stubble ...
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... Shakespeare pos- sesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression , beyond all poets . His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bawble from hand to hand , and uses it to em- body any caprice of thought that is ...
... Shakespeare pos- sesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression , beyond all poets . His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bawble from hand to hand , and uses it to em- body any caprice of thought that is ...
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... Shakespeare , only that least part , only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects , were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's . Of course , there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise ...
... Shakespeare , only that least part , only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects , were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's . Of course , there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise ...
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... Shakespeare . I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as for unlearned hands . And labor is ...
... Shakespeare . I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as for unlearned hands . And labor is ...
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... Shakespeare , and Plato , - these three , and cause them not to be . See you not , how much less the power of man would be ? I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts ; in the paucity of great men , in the malignity and dulness of ...
... Shakespeare , and Plato , - these three , and cause them not to be . See you not , how much less the power of man would be ? I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts ; in the paucity of great men , in the malignity and dulness of ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol ..., Volume 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização integral - 1870 |
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action Æsop antinomianism appear astronomy beauty behold better character church comes conservatism conversation divine earth Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal exist experience fact faculties faith fear feel force genius gifts give Goethe hand heart heaven Heraclitus hope hour human ical individual intel intellect labor light ligion live look man's manner marriage means ment mind moral Napoleon nature never noble objects Parliament of Love party pass perfect persons Phidias Pindar plant Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present prudence reform relations religion rich scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Página 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Página 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Página 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Página 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Página 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Página 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Página 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Página 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Página 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide