The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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Page 66
... beauty . The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome , A. D. 600 , is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers , five centuries later , who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young ...
... beauty . The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome , A. D. 600 , is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers , five centuries later , who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young ...
Page 67
... Beauty and the Beast , " or , long before , in the Greek legend . of Hermaphrodite . The two sexes are co - pre- sent in the English mind . I apply to Britannia , queen of seas and colonies , the words in which her latest novelist ...
... Beauty and the Beast , " or , long before , in the Greek legend . of Hermaphrodite . The two sexes are co - pre- sent in the English mind . I apply to Britannia , queen of seas and colonies , the words in which her latest novelist ...
Page 135
... beauty in form and color as ever existed , and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth , removing the reproach of ster- ility from English art , catching from their savage climate every fine ...
... beauty in form and color as ever existed , and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth , removing the reproach of ster- ility from English art , catching from their savage climate every fine ...
Page 156
... beauty , or éclat , it must be self - supporting . They are contented with slower steamers , as long as they know that swifter boats lose money . They pro- ceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift . Every household ...
... beauty , or éclat , it must be self - supporting . They are contented with slower steamers , as long as they know that swifter boats lose money . They pro- ceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift . Every household ...
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... beauty in some rare Aspa- sia or Cleopatra ; and as the Greek art wrought many a vase or column , in which too long or too lithe , or nodes , or pits and flaws are made a beauty of ; —so these were so quick and vital that they could ...
... beauty in some rare Aspa- sia or Cleopatra ; and as the Greek art wrought many a vase or column , in which too long or too lithe , or nodes , or pits and flaws are made a beauty of ; —so these were so quick and vital that they could ...
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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