I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action, and relieved some by others from time to time ; but there... Essays: Second Series - Page 226by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...notaries' offices, the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,—it will appear as if one man had made it all. Wherever...were newly written. The modernness of all good books seerns to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill done,... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...Again he says, " I am much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; there is such equality and identity both of judgment...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...Again ho says, "I am much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; there is such equality and identity both of judgment...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...there is such equality find identity both of judgment and . , ,. . , A. ^i . .^ . * . . Literature. point of view in the narrative, that it is plainly...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...example ; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.1 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance...good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.1 What is well done I feel as if I did; what is ill done I reck not of. Shakspeare's passages of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...relieved some by others from time to time; but there is such equality and identity both of jndgment and point of view in the narrative, that it is plainly...canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. ' The moderuness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...others from time to time; but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view iu the narrative, that it is plainly the work of one...Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant afler our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modernness of all good books seems to give... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of natuve, play through his mind. 'Money, which represents the...Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant afler our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modernness of all good books seems to give... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 264 pages
...example ; and that of gentlemen fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture. 1 am very much struck in literature by the appearance...into Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant,after our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The moderness of all good books seems... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...secret and public legions of honour; that of scholars, for example ; and that of gentlemen fraternising with the upper class of every country and every culture....canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modemness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel... | |
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