The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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Page 47
... Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius . We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce ...
... Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius . We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce ...
Page 54
... Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelo- pipeds , which broken in two , one part would be an obelisk ; that in Upper Egypt the inhab- itants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone . Again , he ...
... Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelo- pipeds , which broken in two , one part would be an obelisk ; that in Upper Egypt the inhab- itants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone . Again , he ...
Page 208
... Goethe's and Haydon's | Autobiographies . 1 Another class of books closely allied to these , and of like interest , are those which may be called Table - Talks : of which the best are Saadi's ' Gu- listan ; Luther's Table - Talk ...
... Goethe's and Haydon's | Autobiographies . 1 Another class of books closely allied to these , and of like interest , are those which may be called Table - Talks : of which the best are Saadi's ' Gu- listan ; Luther's Table - Talk ...
Page 218
... Goethe , have this enlargement , and inspire hope and generous attempts . - There is no room left , and yet I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best : I mean the Bibles of the world , or the ...
... Goethe , have this enlargement , and inspire hope and generous attempts . - There is no room left , and yet I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best : I mean the Bibles of the world , or the ...
Page 238
... Goethe ; when France , in the person of Madame de Staël , visited Goethe and Schiller ; when Hegel was the guest of Victor Cousin in Paris ; when Linnæus was the guest of Jussieu . It happened many years ago that an American chemist ...
... Goethe ; when France , in the person of Madame de Staël , visited Goethe and Schiller ; when Hegel was the guest of Victor Cousin in Paris ; when Linnæus was the guest of Jussieu . It happened many years ago that an American chemist ...
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