The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward ; a thought which ...
... seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward ; a thought which ...
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... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
... seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously ...
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... seen from the point of the intellect , or as truth . But all is sour if seen as experience . Details are melancholy ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world- the painful kingdom of time and place - dwell care and canker and ...
... seen from the point of the intellect , or as truth . But all is sour if seen as experience . Details are melancholy ; the plan is seemly and noble . In the actual world- the painful kingdom of time and place - dwell care and canker and ...
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