EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us so . ESSAY I. THE POET . THOSE who are esteemed umpires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us so . ESSAY I. THE POET . THOSE who are esteemed umpires.
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... , and apprises us not of his wealth , but of the commonwealth . The young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They re- ceive of the soul as he also receives , but 8 ESSAY 1 .
... , and apprises us not of his wealth , but of the commonwealth . The young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They re- ceive of the soul as he also receives , but 8 ESSAY 1 .
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... young , how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work , and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell ...
... young , how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work , and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell ...
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... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account : or if they live , they lose them- selves in the crowd . Temperament also enters fully into ...
... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account : or if they live , they lose them- selves in the crowd . Temperament also enters fully into ...
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... young people have thought and written much on labor and reform , and for all that they have writ- ten , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity . If a man ...
... young people have thought and written much on labor and reform , and for all that they have writ- ten , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity . If a man ...
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