Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good,... Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 186edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and 4 false. For all symbols are fluxional ; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists iu the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old 4 false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake .of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol ' to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol ' to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 382 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol ' to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 386 pages
...new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol.1 to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment,...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
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