The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Macmillan, 1884 - American literature |
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... sublime ; dulcia sunto , -they must be touching and sympathetic . Only a bold critic will say that this is a mark of Emerson's poems . They are too naked , unrelated , and cosmic : too little clad with the vesture of human associations ...
... sublime ; dulcia sunto , -they must be touching and sympathetic . Only a bold critic will say that this is a mark of Emerson's poems . They are too naked , unrelated , and cosmic : too little clad with the vesture of human associations ...
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... sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more pictu- resque , until its ...
... sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language becomes more pictu- resque , until its ...
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... sublime is felt from the fact , probably , that man is hereby apprised , that , whilst the world is a spectacle , something in himself is stable . 2. In a higher manner , the poet communicates the same pleasure . By a few strokes he ...
... sublime is felt from the fact , probably , that man is hereby apprised , that , whilst the world is a spectacle , something in himself is stable . 2. In a higher manner , the poet communicates the same pleasure . By a few strokes he ...
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... sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been ...
... sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches , " This will be found contrary to all experience , yet is true ; " had already transferred nature into the mind , and left matter like an outcast corpse . 4. Intellectual science has been ...
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... effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state , assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the sublime and beautiful , the near , the low 88 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state , assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the sublime and beautiful , the near , the low 88 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
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