Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... outlines and col- ored surfaces . When the eye of Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added , grace and expression . These proceed from imagina- tion and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular IDEALISM . 47.
... outlines and col- ored surfaces . When the eye of Reason opens , to outline and surface are at once added , grace and expression . These proceed from imagina- tion and affection , and abate somewhat of the angular IDEALISM . 47.
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Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. tion 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 ...
Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. tion 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 ...
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... affections in denying substantive being to men and women . Nature is so pervaded with human life , that there is something of humanity in all , and in every par- ticular . But this theory makes nature foreign to me , and does not ...
... affections in denying substantive being to men and women . Nature is so pervaded with human life , that there is something of humanity in all , and in every par- ticular . But this theory makes nature foreign to me , and does not ...
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... affections , then will God go forth anew into the creation . common . ? It will not need , when the mind is prepared for study , to search for objects . The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the What is a day ? What ...
... affections , then will God go forth anew into the creation . common . ? It will not need , when the mind is prepared for study , to search for objects . The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the What is a day ? What ...
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... affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occu- pies your intellect , nature brings it in the con- crete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , especially at ...
... affections of the mind . Whilst the abstract question occu- pies your intellect , nature brings it in the con- crete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , especially at ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.