The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Svazek 4Macmillan, 1902 |
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... mind , and he was the most patient and gentle of hosts . He praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence ; he admired Washington ; talked of Words- worth , Byron , Massinger , Beaumont and Fletcher . To be sure , he is ...
... mind , and he was the most patient and gentle of hosts . He praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence ; he admired Washington ; talked of Words- worth , Byron , Massinger , Beaumont and Fletcher . To be sure , he is ...
Strana 13
... mind he knew , whom London had well served . On the 28th August , I went to Rydal Mount , to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth . His daughters called in their father , a plain , elderly , I. ] 13 FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND .
... mind he knew , whom London had well served . On the 28th August , I went to Rydal Mount , to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth . His daughters called in their father , a plain , elderly , I. ] 13 FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND .
Strana 18
... mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tame- ness and conformity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value . It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease , who expiate their depart- ure from ...
... mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tame- ness and conformity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value . It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease , who expiate their depart- ure from ...
Strana 24
... minds are preoccupied . The water - laws , arctic frost , the mountain , the mine , only shatter cockneyism ; every noble activity makes room for itself . A great mind is a good sailor , as a great heart is . And the sea is not slow in ...
... minds are preoccupied . The water - laws , arctic frost , the mountain , the mine , only shatter cockneyism ; every noble activity makes room for itself . A great mind is a good sailor , as a great heart is . And the sea is not slow in ...
Strana 65
... minds addicted to contemplation , and cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought , however lawful , whose ... mind is not dazzled by its own means , but locked and bolted to results . They love men , who , like Samuel John ...
... minds addicted to contemplation , and cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought , however lawful , whose ... mind is not dazzled by its own means , but locked and bolted to results . They love men , who , like Samuel John ...
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Strana 291 - At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define. He leaves with Asia the vast and superlative ; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence. " He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
Strana 379 - Essays remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
Strana 383 - The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive.
Strana 470 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things.
Strana 322 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Strana 450 - It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or at least that he was caught at it. In short, when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor, you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last; but with an impostor and a rogue; and he fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
Strana 408 - ... and King James, and the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs, and Buckinghams ; and lets pass, without a single valuable note, the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered, — the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him, and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished, and minds to receive this and not another bias. A popular player, — nobody suspected he was the poet of the...