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All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great moments of history , in the great discoveries , the great resistances , the great ...
All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathise in the great moments of history , in the great discoveries , the great resistances , the great ...
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A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning ...
A true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning ...
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The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist ...
The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist ...
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Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm ...
Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm ...
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... wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with ...
... wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with ...
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| Title | Essays, Volume 1 Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 6 of World's classics |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 354 pages |
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