 It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book,...  Temple Bar - Page 203edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull pray,"... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull pray,"... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Augustc... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if 1 hud myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1838, that in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 316 pages
...was the origin of that gentleman's admiration for the Essayist. " It seemed " to me," he confesses, " as if I had myself written " the book, in some former...it spoke " to my thought and experience."* * This appears to be the case with others besides Mr. Emerson. The late Bayle St. John, in his Biography of... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 316 pages
...was the origin of that gentleman's admiration for the Essayist. " It seemed " to me," he confesses, " as if I had myself written " the book, in some former...it spoke " to my thought and experience."* * This appears to be the case with others besides Mr. Emerson. The late Bayle St. John, in his Biography of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | 1874 - 712 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me an if I had myself written the book in some former life,...sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. This avowal is precious. Emerson himself has taken Montaigne as the type of the skeptic in his " Representative... | |
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former...sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. This avowal is precious. Emerson himself has taken Montaigne as the type of the sceptic in his " Representative... | |
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