Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is , at the ...
... meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is , at the ...
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... meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on ...
... meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intellectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on ...
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... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
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... meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse and with each new uproar of announcement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before ...
... meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse and with each new uproar of announcement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before ...
Page 90
... On winged feet, Lo ! it rushes thee to meet ; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills and swim the sea And, like thy shadow, follow thee. in. COMPENSATION. Ever since I was a boy I have.
... On winged feet, Lo ! it rushes thee to meet ; And all that Nature made thy own, Floating in air or pent in stone, Will rive the hills and swim the sea And, like thy shadow, follow thee. in. COMPENSATION. Ever since I was a boy I have.
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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