Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 pages |
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... senses ; in its common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by ...
... senses ; in its common and in its philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccuracy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to essences unchanged by ...
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... sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter , from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this ...
... sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter , from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this ...
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... senses are still truly adjusted to each other ; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood . His intercourse with heaven and earth , becomes part of his daily food . In the presence of nature , a wild delight ...
... senses are still truly adjusted to each other ; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood . His intercourse with heaven and earth , becomes part of his daily food . In the presence of nature , a wild delight ...
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... senses owe to nature . This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is per- fect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend ...
... senses owe to nature . This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is per- fect in its kind , and is the only use of nature which all men apprehend ...
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... as the eye is the best com- poser , so 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 2.
... as the eye is the best com- poser , so 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 2.
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Page 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Page 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Page 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Page 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Page 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Page 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Page 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Page 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Page 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.