 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...more short-lived or mutable than spirit. Meanwhile, the best, the happiest moments of life, are those delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God, which happen to the idealist, who is both a philosopher and a poet. Nature, speaking of spirit, suggests... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...and coloured surfaces. When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...and coloured surfaces. When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become D'2 transparent, and are no longer seen : causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 414 pages
...and colored surfaces. When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...seen through them. The best moments of life are these deli9 cious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1866 - 298 pages
...and coloured surfaces. When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...and colored surfaces. When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces becom.0 transparent, and are no longer seen ; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best moments... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...and colored surfaces. "When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If tlie Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 340 pages
...and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and reflection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of...are seen through them. The best moments of life are those delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of Nature before its... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 402 pages
...the faculties of man." " If the reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and services become transparent, and are no longer seen : causes and spirits are seen through them." " The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man." " In a cabinet of natural history we become... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography - 1883 - 674 pages
...and colored surfaces. "When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and...them. The best moments of life are these delicious awakeninss O of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God. Let us... | |
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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,... 
