| Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...world into himself. * * * Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. W, Emerson. PORTRAIT. He who'd paint the fair Must mix the blending colours, soft as air ; — To hit... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man : only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and violet, and bind her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child : only let... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...— the. sun as its candle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. LESSON CLXVIII. ADDRESS O^ LEONIDAS. RICHARD GLOVER. 1. HE alone Remains unshaken. Dignity and grace... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the whole geography... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. "Willingly does she follow his steps...violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to ihe decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...te'mple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, ind the frame will suit the picture. A virtuous man is in unison with her works, and makes the central... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate... | |
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