The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Svazek 4Macmillan, 1902 |
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... taste for Perugino and the early masters . The Greek histories he thought the only good ; and after them , Voltaire's . I could not make him praise Mackintosh , nor my more recent friends , Montaigne very cordially , -and Charron also ...
... taste for Perugino and the early masters . The Greek histories he thought the only good ; and after them , Voltaire's . I could not make him praise Mackintosh , nor my more recent friends , Montaigne very cordially , -and Charron also ...
Strana 18
... taste . He then said he would show me a better way towards the inn ; and he walked a good part of a mile , talking , and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse , and finally parted from me with great kindness ...
... taste . He then said he would show me a better way towards the inn ; and he walked a good part of a mile , talking , and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse , and finally parted from me with great kindness ...
Strana 22
... taste , like that for tomatoes and olives . The confinement , cold , motion , noise , and odour are not to be dispensed with . The floor of your room is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees , and I waked every morning with the ...
... taste , like that for tomatoes and olives . The confinement , cold , motion , noise , and odour are not to be dispensed with . The floor of your room is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees , and I waked every morning with the ...
Strana 29
... tastes ; and , to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element , a serious man must aid himself , by comparing with it the civilisations of the farthest east and west , the old Greek , the Oriental , and , much more , the ...
... tastes ; and , to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element , a serious man must aid himself , by comparing with it the civilisations of the farthest east and west , the old Greek , the Oriental , and , much more , the ...
Strana 54
... tastes , which make them women in kind- ness . This union of qualities is fabled in their national legend of Beauty and the Beast , or , long before , in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite . The I two sexes are co - present in the ...
... tastes , which make them women in kind- ness . This union of qualities is fabled in their national legend of Beauty and the Beast , or , long before , in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite . The I two sexes are co - present in the ...
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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...