...from memory :—" At first I rubbed my eyes to find if this new sunbeam might not be an illusion I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." Toward no other American, toward no contemporary excepting Carlyle, had Emerson ever used such strong...

...In relation to this, Professor Robertson (p. 136) quotes the words of Emerson to Walt Whitman : ' I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start.' ' At Tell el-Amarna. that good schools existed throughout Western Asia before the Exodus. He points...

...memory : — "'At first, I rubbed my eyes, to find if this new sunbeam might not be an illusion. . . . I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start.'" Praise such as this from the veteran of American literature is no mean recommendation. To no one of...

...find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. " I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...sunbeam were no illusion ; but the solid sense of Uie book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging. " I did...

...to welcome the author, then totally unknown. Among other things, said Emerson to the new avatar, ' I greet you at the beginning of a great career which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start? The last clause was, however, overlooked entirely by the critics, who treated the new author as one...

...on Walt Whitman, pp. 15-16. which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. . . . The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty....best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.' Thoreau wrote of the book in a similar, if more guarded, strain. ' On the whole, it sounds to me,'...

...on WaU Whitman, pp. 15-16. which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. . . . The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty....best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.' Thoreau wrote of the book in a similar, if more guarded, strain. ' On the whole, it sounds to me,'...

...author to tell him that in his book he had found " incomparable things said incomparably well. . . . The solid sense of the book is a sober certainty....best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging." Few if any copies of the book were sold. The second edition was issued in 1856,3 much thicker volume...

...dispute — Still there are three points to be proved before the eritical position can be adopted. " I GREET you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." With these words Emerson extended to Walt Whitman a welcome into the literary world; and in a similar...

...dispute — Still there are three points to be proved before the critical position can be adopted. "I GREET you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." With these words Emerson extended to Walt Whitman a welcome into the literary world ; and in a similar...