Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 37
... Milton , Taylor , Evelyn , Pepys , Hooker , Cotton , and the translators , wrote it . How realistic or material- istic in treatment of his subject is Swift . He describes his fictitious persons as if for the police . Defoe has no ...
... Milton , Taylor , Evelyn , Pepys , Hooker , Cotton , and the translators , wrote it . How realistic or material- istic in treatment of his subject is Swift . He describes his fictitious persons as if for the police . Defoe has no ...
Page 341
... Milton . " In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents , Emeric Bigot , and in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation , he writes : Many have been celebrated for their compositions whose common ...
... Milton . " In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents , Emeric Bigot , and in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation , he writes : Many have been celebrated for their compositions whose common ...
Page 345
... Milton with ' great promise and small performance , " in returning from Italy because his country was in danger , and then opening a private school . Milton , wiser , felt no absurdity in this conduct . He returned into his ...
... Milton with ' great promise and small performance , " in returning from Italy because his country was in danger , and then opening a private school . Milton , wiser , felt no absurdity in this conduct . He returned into his ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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action animal appear beauty behold believe better character church conversation dæmon divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil eyes fact faith fear feel force genius give Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour means Milton mind moral nations nature never numbers opinion party perfect persons Phidias philosophy Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political Portrait present race reform relations religion religious Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society solitude soul speak spirit stand Stoicism sublime SYDNEY DOBELL T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendental Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wise wish words write youth