The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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Page 11
... charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot do without cultivated men . As soon as the first ...
... charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot do without cultivated men . As soon as the first ...
Page 24
... charm to woman which educates all that is delicate , poetic and self - sac- rificing ; breeds courtesy and learning , conver- sation and wit , in her rough mate ; so that I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the ...
... charm to woman which educates all that is delicate , poetic and self - sac- rificing ; breeds courtesy and learning , conver- sation and wit , in her rough mate ; so that I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the ...
Page 28
... charm . I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the seashore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus en- gages the assistance of the moon , like a hired hand , to grind , and wind , and ...
... charm . I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the seashore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus en- gages the assistance of the moon , like a hired hand , to grind , and wind , and ...
Page 53
... charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things . The Iliad of Homer , the songs of David , the odes of Pindar , the trage- dies of Æschylus , the Doric temples , the Gothic cathedrals , the plays of Shakspeare , all and each ...
... charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things . The Iliad of Homer , the songs of David , the odes of Pindar , the trage- dies of Æschylus , the Doric temples , the Gothic cathedrals , the plays of Shakspeare , all and each ...
Page 126
... charm , and reads new expressions of face . He perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great ...
... charm , and reads new expressions of face . He perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great ...
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admired Æschylus American Aristophanes audience beauty Ben Jonson better Boston boys bring called charm civil club Concord conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine eloquence Emerson wrote essay eternal eyes face fact farmer feel genius give Goethe Greece Greek happy hear heart Horatio Greenough hour human intellect John Brown Jotun journal labor land lecture live look Margaret Fuller master means ment mind moral Nature never Odoacer orator passage person Phi Beta Kappa Phocion plants Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson Saadi scholar seems sentence sentiment Seven Wise Masters Shakspeare society Socrates solitude soul speak speech spirit talent things thought tion town ture whilst wise wish words write young youth