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Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVIII

Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part IV

Summoned in such consoling tones and invited with such kindness, like earthly Mercuries, we shall fly on winged feet to embrace that most...

Beauty & Truth

Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...

Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part I

Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so...

A Defence of Poetry - Part I

ACCORDING to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be...

Love's Bright Star

Take a look at the night sky. See the vast emptiness of its darkness. Now think that although the world may look scary and threatening...

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VII (Finale)

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VI

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part V

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part IV

"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part III

"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part II

"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part I

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XXIII (Finale)

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXII

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXI

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