The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 216
... Milton was for us , Burns , Shelley , were with us , graves ! -they watch from thei He alone breaks from the van and the freemen , He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves ! " Browning , The Lost Leader . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW I DO ...
... Milton was for us , Burns , Shelley , were with us , graves ! -they watch from thei He alone breaks from the van and the freemen , He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves ! " Browning , The Lost Leader . THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW I DO ...
Page 300
... Then interests were never persuaded . Can you convince the shoe interest , or the iron interest , or the cotton interest , by reading pass- ages from Milton or Montesquieu ? You wish to satisfy +300 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.
... Then interests were never persuaded . Can you convince the shoe interest , or the iron interest , or the cotton interest , by reading pass- ages from Milton or Montesquieu ? You wish to satisfy +300 AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ages from Milton or Montesquieu ? You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy . Why , the Edinburgh Review pounded on that string , and made out its case , forty years ago . A democratic statesman said to ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ages from Milton or Montesquieu ? You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy . Why , the Edinburgh Review pounded on that string , and made out its case , forty years ago . A democratic statesman said to ...
Page 413
... Milton saw in vision . This is the victory of Griselda , her supreme humility . humility . And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning . When we see that , it adds to the soul a new ...
... Milton saw in vision . This is the victory of Griselda , her supreme humility . humility . And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning . When we see that , it adds to the soul a new ...
Page 464
... Milton , or Wordsworth . Compared with their purified songs , purified of all ephemeral color or ma- terial , his were vers de société . But he had the skill proper to vers de société , skill to fit his verse to his topic , and not to ...
... Milton , or Wordsworth . Compared with their purified songs , purified of all ephemeral color or ma- terial , his were vers de société . But he had the skill proper to vers de société , skill to fit his verse to his topic , and not to ...
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