Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 4Houghton, Osgood, 1876 |
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... forests , metals , diamonds , and fossils interest the eye , but ' t is only with some preparatory or predicting charm . Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover ...
... forests , metals , diamonds , and fossils interest the eye , but ' t is only with some preparatory or predicting charm . Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover ...
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... forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit , to decipher the arrowhead character , than to interpret these familiar sights ...
... forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit , to decipher the arrowhead character , than to interpret these familiar sights ...
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... forest or the air they inhabit . The original force , the direct smell of the earth or the sea , is in these ancient poems , the Sagas of the North , the Nibelungen Lied , the songs and ballads of the English and Scotch . I find or ...
... forest or the air they inhabit . The original force , the direct smell of the earth or the sea , is in these ancient poems , the Sagas of the North , the Nibelungen Lied , the songs and ballads of the English and Scotch . I find or ...
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... forest of Broceliande , lamenting as he went along . Presently , he heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand ; looking that way , he could see nothing save a kind of sınoke which seemed like air , and through which he could not ...
... forest of Broceliande , lamenting as he went along . Presently , he heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand ; looking that way , he could see nothing save a kind of sınoke which seemed like air , and through which he could not ...
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... forest , laying out town and street , and building every house and barn and fence , then church and town - house , exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought , and made the whole population poor ; and the like necessity is still found ...
... forest , laying out town and street , and building every house and barn and fence , then church and town - house , exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought , and made the whole population poor ; and the like necessity is still found ...
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Page 73 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; /...,'..'. The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Page 43 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me, Where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp, Unwholesome draught.
Page 186 - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent.
Page 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 11 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Page 15 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's...
Page 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Page 84 - GIVE ALL TO LOVE Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good-fame, Plans, credit and the Muse,-- Nothing refuse. 'T is a brave master; Let it have scope: Follow it utterly, Hope beyond hope: High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But it is a god, Knows its own path And the outlets of the sky. It was never for the mean; It requireth courage stout. Souls above doubt, Valor unbending, It will reward,-- They shall return More than they were,...
Page 203 - My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west And fend you with his wing. Lo! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the sculptor uncovers the statue When he has wrought his best...