Emerson as a PoetM. L. Holbrook & Company, 1883 - 134 páginas |
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... literary constellation . We must go back to Shakespeare and Milton , among English names , to find an equally enormous endow- ment . If it does not stream in versatility , it towers in commanding altitude . * Among his contemporaries we ...
... literary constellation . We must go back to Shakespeare and Milton , among English names , to find an equally enormous endow- ment . If it does not stream in versatility , it towers in commanding altitude . * Among his contemporaries we ...
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... literary expression in this century , it alone should be reserved as an island for silence . Let us admit at the outset , if you will , that the fortitude of his strain - as Matthew Arnold says of the verses of Epictetus " is for the ...
... literary expression in this century , it alone should be reserved as an island for silence . Let us admit at the outset , if you will , that the fortitude of his strain - as Matthew Arnold says of the verses of Epictetus " is for the ...
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... literary world together , fall- * An anecdote , giving some pleasant badinage between Emerson and an interviewer on this point , is gracefully told by a writer in Scribner's Monthly for February , 1880 . ing into a condition of mind ...
... literary world together , fall- * An anecdote , giving some pleasant badinage between Emerson and an interviewer on this point , is gracefully told by a writer in Scribner's Monthly for February , 1880 . ing into a condition of mind ...
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... literary work - Emerson says : His words , like a storm - wind , can bring Terror and beauty on their wing ; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable ; And though he speak in midnight dark , — In heaven no star , on earth no spark ...
... literary work - Emerson says : His words , like a storm - wind , can bring Terror and beauty on their wing ; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable ; And though he speak in midnight dark , — In heaven no star , on earth no spark ...
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... literary fashion . A candid and broader view will not believe that beauty exhausts itself in a single type . Genius is for the most part a law unto itself , and is usually the element which is certain to escape your most precise defini ...
... literary fashion . A candid and broader view will not believe that beauty exhausts itself in a single type . Genius is for the most part a law unto itself , and is usually the element which is certain to escape your most precise defini ...
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Página 66 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Página 60 - Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Página 26 - Merlin's mighty line Extremes of nature reconciled, Bereaved a tyrant of his will, And made the lion mild. Songs can the tempest still, Scattered on the stormy air, Mould the year to fair increase. And bring in poetic peace. He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times, Efficacious rhymes ; Wait his returning strength. Bird that from the nadir's floor To the zenith's top can soar, — The soaring orbit of the muse exceeds that journey's length.
Página 84 - Guest of million painted forms, Which in turn thy glory warms! The frailest leaf, the mossy bark, The acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc, The swinging spider's silver line, The ruby of the drop of wine, The shining pebble of the pond, Thou inscribest with a bond, In thy momentary play, Would bankrupt nature to repay.
Página 40 - I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light. Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?
Página 87 - His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
Página 87 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 79 - Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept...
Página 36 - O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Página 34 - Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; but from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...