The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 175
... Persian , nor Mem- phian , nor Teutonic , nor local at all , but was common lime and silex and water and sunlight , the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs ; it was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands ...
... Persian , nor Mem- phian , nor Teutonic , nor local at all , but was common lime and silex and water and sunlight , the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs ; it was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands ...
Page 194
... Persians , Confucius of the Chinese , Cervantes of the Spaniards ; so , perhaps , the human mind would be a gainer if all the second- writers were lost , ary say , in England , all but Shakspeare , Milton and Bacon , - through the ...
... Persians , Confucius of the Chinese , Cervantes of the Spaniards ; so , perhaps , the human mind would be a gainer if all the second- writers were lost , ary say , in England , all but Shakspeare , Milton and Bacon , - through the ...
Page 217
... and critical , have the imagi- native element . The Greek fables , the Persian history ( Firdusi ) , the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians , the Chronicle of the Cid , the poem of Dante , the Sonnets of Michel Angelo , BOOKS 217.
... and critical , have the imagi- native element . The Greek fables , the Persian history ( Firdusi ) , the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians , the Chronicle of the Cid , the poem of Dante , the Sonnets of Michel Angelo , BOOKS 217.
Page 317
... to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour . Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years , who was dying , and was saying to him- 2 self , " I said , coming into the world OLD AGE 317.
... to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour . Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years , who was dying , and was saying to him- 2 self , " I said , coming into the world OLD AGE 317.
Page 344
... Persian Poetry , " which were included in the next volume , Letters and Social Aims . When the volume reached England it brought back this response from his old friend : APRIL 6TH , 1870 . The little Book " I read here , . . . with ...
... Persian Poetry , " which were included in the next volume , Letters and Social Aims . When the volume reached England it brought back this response from his old friend : APRIL 6TH , 1870 . The little Book " I read here , . . . with ...
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Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better called charm civil club Confucius conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson essay face fact feel force Gawain genius give Goethe Greece Hafiz hand hear heard heart heaven human imagination inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal king labor lecture live look Madame de Staël manners master Merlin mind moral nations Nature never Odoacer orator perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare Simorg society Socrates song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought Timur tion true truth ture verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole wise words write wrote young youth Zoroaster