 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.  Catholic Educational Review - Page 550edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets axe thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 564 pages
...the following he is still more explicit : — " The poets are liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, ' Those who...throughout the world.' They are free, and they make free. An imaginative work renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 584 pages
...the following he is still more explicit : — " The poets are liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, ' Those who...throughout the world.' They are free, and they make free. An imaginative •work renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British batds had for the title of their order, " Those who are...throughout the world." They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1882 - 746 pages
...breathes through forms, and accompanying that. The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, "Those who...throughout the world. " They are free, and they make free. . . . Therefore all books of the imagination endure ; all which ascend to that truth, that the writer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 382 pages
...is in vain to hang them, they cannot die." The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, " Those who...throughout the world." They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than... | |
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