Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 74
... hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . " We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth . Some thoughts always find us young , and keep us so . Such a ...
... hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . " We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth . Some thoughts always find us young , and keep us so . Such a ...
Page 278
... hour of love and aspiration ; but rather what he then puts out of sight , only showing the brilliant result , and ... hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour . Of course , whilst another man has no land , my title to mine ...
... hour of love and aspiration ; but rather what he then puts out of sight , only showing the brilliant result , and ... hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour . Of course , whilst another man has no land , my title to mine ...
Page 309
... hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ... hour , that takes down the narrow walls of my soul , and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon . That ...
... hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ... hour , that takes down the narrow walls of my soul , and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon . That ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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