The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also . Besides those I have named ( for Scott was dead ) , there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold , unless it were the Duke of Welling- ton , whom I ...
... Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also . Besides those I have named ( for Scott was dead ) , there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold , unless it were the Duke of Welling- ton , whom I ...
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... Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily . It was full of all manner of fornication . It was like the crossing of flies in the air . He had never gone farther than the first part ; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room . I ...
... Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily . It was full of all manner of fornication . It was like the crossing of flies in the air . He had never gone farther than the first part ; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room . I ...
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... Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it : " -and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out , and , in his later writings , changed his tone . As soon as men begin to talk of art , architecture and ...
... Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it : " -and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out , and , in his later writings , changed his tone . As soon as men begin to talk of art , architecture and ...
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... Goethe , the performances of Scott , appear super- human to us in their quantity , let alone their quality . " Page 209 , note 1. Huber's History of English Uni- versities . Page 209 , note 2. Bristed's Five Years in an English ...
... Goethe , the performances of Scott , appear super- human to us in their quantity , let alone their quality . " Page 209 , note 1. Huber's History of English Uni- versities . Page 209 , note 2. Bristed's Five Years in an English ...
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... Goethe , and was a dramatic critic . Journal , 1849. " The Times newspaper attracts the American in London more and more , until at last he wonders that it does not more pique the curiosity of the English them- selves . one thing to ...
... Goethe , and was a dramatic critic . Journal , 1849. " The Times newspaper attracts the American in London more and more , until at last he wonders that it does not more pique the curiosity of the English them- selves . one thing to ...
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American Arthur Hugh Clough beauty better Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich British Carlyle Causes Célèbres character Chartist church culture Duke Emerson wrote England English English Traits Englishman essay eyes Fate force French genius give Goethe heart Heimskringla Horatio Greenough horse human hundred illusion intellect John Sterling journal King labor land learned lecture limp band live London look Lord manners means mind moral nation nature never noble persons plant Plato Plutarch Poems poet poetry politics poor race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret sense Shakspeare society soul speak spirit Stonehenge talent things thou thought tion trade traits truth universe verse wealth whilst wise Wordsworth writes youth