American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and time , make all matter gay ...
... light is the first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and time , make all matter gay ...
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... light from us . " They do not yet perceive that light , unsystematic , indomi- table , will break into any cabin , even into theirs . Let them chirp awhile and call it their own . If they are honest and do well , presently their neat ...
... light from us . " They do not yet perceive that light , unsystematic , indomi- table , will break into any cabin , even into theirs . Let them chirp awhile and call it their own . If they are honest and do well , presently their neat ...
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... light will not make beautiful , " Emerson wrote . The American Transcendentalists generally meant by such light the light of intuitive Reason , which sees all things symbolically . Bathed in this light , every- thing in existence is ...
... light will not make beautiful , " Emerson wrote . The American Transcendentalists generally meant by such light the light of intuitive Reason , which sees all things symbolically . Bathed in this light , every- thing in existence is ...
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