Nature, Addresses, and LecturesRiverside Press, 1883 - 372 páginas |
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... stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence ...
... stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence ...
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... , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their back- ground , and the stars of the dead calices of BEAUTY . 23.
... , and which Homer or Shakspeare could not re - form for me in words ? The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset , with the blue east for their back- ground , and the stars of the dead calices of BEAUTY . 23.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ground , and the stars of the dead calices of flow- ers , and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost , contribute something to the mute mu- sic . The inhabitants of cities suppose that the coun- try ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ground , and the stars of the dead calices of flow- ers , and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost , contribute something to the mute mu- sic . The inhabitants of cities suppose that the coun- try ...
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... stars , moonlight , shadows in still water , and the like , if too eagerly hunted , be- come shows merely , and mock us with their unreal- ity . Go out of the house to see the moon , and ' t is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when ...
... stars , moonlight , shadows in still water , and the like , if too eagerly hunted , be- come shows merely , and mock us with their unreal- ity . Go out of the house to see the moon , and ' t is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when ...
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... stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hun- dred martyrs consume one day in dying , and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep ...
... stars of heaven . When a noble act is done , perchance in a scene of great natural beauty ; when Leonidas and his three hun- dred martyrs consume one day in dying , and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep ...
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Página 15 - In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
Página 115 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 31 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 22 - To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
Página 58 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Página 105 - ... lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent: he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior. The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custorn, what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. Yes, we are the cowed, — we the trustless. It...
Página 55 - When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.
Página 92 - Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Página 136 - ... married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned. Not one fact in all his experience had he yet imported into his doctrine. This man had ploughed, and planted, and talked, and bought, and sold; he had read books; he had eaten and drunken; his head aches; his heart throbs; he smiles and suffers; yet was there not a surmise,...
Página 84 - ... 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. 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, shall one day be the polestar for a thousand years?