...life of language. Finally, we recall from Emerson's chapter on "Language" from Nature the following: A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual...image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, cotemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing...

...George Eliot, in Gordon S. Haight (ed.), The George Eliot Letters (1954), II, p. 251 2:34 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar...or exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, 'Language', in Nature, Ch.4 2:35 1 wish to say what I think and feel today,...

...at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God. ... A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual...thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. (2) And of course the modern textualist stylistics against which Stanley Fish rails is a stylistics...

...God." Emerson approached something like contemporary linguistic understanding of frames when he said, "A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual...image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, cotemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought." It is in this very...

...he watch Ms intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less huninons, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought,...thought. Hence good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetnal allegories." From this he argues that country life is a great advantage to a powerful mind,...

...the speaker's intention, whilst 17 Una idea que ya encontramos en Emerson, por ejemplo en "Nature": "A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual...thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought" (Emerson en Atkinson, 2000 (1836): 16). the other is naive enough to take the utterance at its face...

...natural means of expression in poetry. Emerson says of this use of figurative language: The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar...he watch his intellectual processes, will find that material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought which...

...commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God. The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar...image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, cotemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing...

...otherwise noted. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, VOL. 117, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 1973 above the ground line of familiar facts and is inflamed...or exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images. . . . This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the...