The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world ; without reflecting that they are prisoners , too , of their own thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary ...
... scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world ; without reflecting that they are prisoners , too , of their own thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary ...
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... scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences ; for wisdom , wit , and indig- nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge ...
... scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences ; for wisdom , wit , and indig- nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge ...
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... scholar nourished his mighty heart . ' Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms ...
... scholar nourished his mighty heart . ' Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms ...
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... scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour ...
... scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour ...
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... scholars of all those capitals . But England is anchored at the side of Europe , and right in the heart of the modern world . The sea , which , according to Virgil's famous line , divided the poor Britons utterly from the world ...
... scholars of all those capitals . But England is anchored at the side of Europe , and right in the heart of the modern world . The sea , which , according to Virgil's famous line , divided the poor Britons utterly from the world ...
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Common terms and phrases
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