Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken. He has not worshipped the highest unity ; he is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he'has sounded.... "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ... - Page 152
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
Full view - About this book

The Indicator: A Literary Periodical Conducted by Students of ..., Volumes 1-3

1848 - 936 pages
...incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose...pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture." Our limits have forbidden more extended extracts from these lectures, though we should have been glad...
Full view - About this book

Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...incapable of self-sxirrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose...pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture." ' In one respect it is not so hard to enucleate the pantheism of Emerson as that of Goethe and Carlyle....
Full view - About this book

Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...incapable of self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose...pure truth; but to truth for the sake of culture." l In one respect it is not so hard to enucleate the pantheism of Emerson as that of Goethe and Carlyle....
Full view - About this book

Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...incapable of self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose...the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men. His is nojt even the devotion to pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture." ' In one respect it is...
Full view - About this book

Journal of Education, Volume 87

1918 - 744 pages
...the world generally was worshiping German _ cd ture. It was written in his wonderful tribute ' e reae writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer and more touches the heart His is not even devotion to pure truth but to truth for the sake of culture. . . - He is the type of...
Full view - About this book

Studies in English and American Literature, from Chaucer to the Present Time ...

Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent whose...dear to men. His is not even the devotion to pure 85 truth, but to truth for the sake of culture. He has no aims less large than the conquest of universal...
Full view - About this book

American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880

John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...himself more to this man than to any other. . . . But there are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent whose...touches the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men. . " Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably...
Full view - About this book

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 pages
...incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry, than any lie has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose...pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture. He lias no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature, of universal truth, to be his portion:...
Full view - About this book

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in. talent, whose...pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture. He lias no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature, of universal truth, to be his portion...
Full view - About this book

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
...incapable of a self-nnrrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer and more tonches the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men. His is not even the devotion to pure truth ; but...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF