 Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just...  Orations, Lectures and Essays - Page 85by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...pure thought that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to (»temporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...own books ; or rather, each generation for the next sueceeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...artist can entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book." " Hence arises a mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man. Henceforth the chant is divine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,—the act of thought,—is instantly transferred to the record. The poet, chanting, was felt... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or, rather, F2 each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Hence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to t cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age,...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither •can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local/ the perishable from his book, or write...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to he a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to bo a divine man : henceforth the chant is... | |
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