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Page viii
... wish that he should do so, and in all his work, that previously so well done by this hereditary friend has been of inestimable value to him. It should be remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social ...
... wish that he should do so, and in all his work, that previously so well done by this hereditary friend has been of inestimable value to him. It should be remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social ...
Page xii
... wishes. What he desired was simply to bring together under the particular heading whatever could be found that seemed in place there, without regard to the connection in which it was found. This had been his own practice, and all his ...
... wishes. What he desired was simply to bring together under the particular heading whatever could be found that seemed in place there, without regard to the connection in which it was found. This had been his own practice, and all his ...
Page 12
... wish them rasthr rendered into prose reality,- as children resent your show-' ing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags; and my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia ...
... wish them rasthr rendered into prose reality,- as children resent your show-' ing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags; and my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia ...
Page 22
... wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him. In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, he finds facts adequate and as large as he. As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom, so also are these. It is ...
... wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him. In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, he finds facts adequate and as large as he. As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom, so also are these. It is ...
Page 29
... wish, therefore, to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads, or that he would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him. He must believe in his poetry. Homer, Milton, Hafiz, Herbert, Swedenborg ...
... wish, therefore, to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads, or that he would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him. He must believe in his poetry. Homer, Milton, Hafiz, Herbert, Swedenborg ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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