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Page 121
Why should all give dollars ? It is very inconvenient to us country folk , and we ... give corn . Poets will sing . Women will sew . Laborers will lend a hand . The children will bring flowers . And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday ...
Why should all give dollars ? It is very inconvenient to us country folk , and we ... give corn . Poets will sing . Women will sew . Laborers will lend a hand . The children will bring flowers . And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday ...
Page 156
But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft ...
But here is a strange fact ; it may seem to many men in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft ...
Page 307
In landscapes , the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know . The details , the prose of nature he should omit , and give us only the spirit and splendor . He should know that the landscape has beauty for ...
In landscapes , the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know . The details , the prose of nature he should omit , and give us only the spirit and splendor . He should know that the landscape has beauty for ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Complete works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1923 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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