The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Svazek 4Macmillan, 1902 |
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Strana 6
... original sentence , a step forward , is worth more than all the censures . Landor is strangely undervalued in England ; usually ignored ; and sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews . The criticism may be right , or wrong , and is ...
... original sentence , a step forward , is worth more than all the censures . Landor is strangely undervalued in England ; usually ignored ; and sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews . The criticism may be right , or wrong , and is ...
Strana 9
... original , for I have filtered it . " When I rose to go , he said , " I do not know whether you care about poetry , but I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniver- sary , " and he recited with strong emphasis ...
... original , for I have filtered it . " When I rose to go , he said , " I do not know whether you care about poetry , but I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniver- sary , " and he recited with strong emphasis ...
Strana 42
... original seats . Who can call by right names what races are in Britain ? Who can trace them historically ? Who can discriminate them anatomically , or meta- physically ? In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical ...
... original seats . Who can call by right names what races are in Britain ? Who can trace them historically ? Who can discriminate them anatomically , or meta- physically ? In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical ...
Strana 115
... of the nation discloses , at every turn , this original predilection for private independence , and , however this inclination may have been dis turbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power VIII . ] 115 CHARACTER .
... of the nation discloses , at every turn , this original predilection for private independence , and , however this inclination may have been dis turbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power VIII . ] 115 CHARACTER .
Strana 172
... original writers . It is easy to carp at colleges , and the college , if we will wait for it , will have its own turn . Genius exists there also , but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons . It is rare ...
... original writers . It is easy to carp at colleges , and the college , if we will wait for it , will have its own turn . Genius exists there also , but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons . It is rare ...
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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...