The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. AAAAA ARTES 1817 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR C TEEBOR CUMSPIC Gift of Dr. E. Frederick Lang , 33 33333 C CCC.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. AAAAA ARTES 1817 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR C TEEBOR CUMSPIC Gift of Dr. E. Frederick Lang , 33 33333 C CCC.
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... youth . Within these plantations of God , a decorum and sanctity reign , a perennial festival is dressed , and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years . In the woods , we return to reason and faith . There I ...
... youth . Within these plantations of God , a decorum and sanctity reign , a perennial festival is dressed , and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years . In the woods , we return to reason and faith . There I ...
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... youth and love daz- zles him with its resemblance to morning . Take those lips away Which so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes , the break of day , ― Lights that do mislead the morn . The wild beauty of this hyperbole , I may say ...
... youth and love daz- zles him with its resemblance to morning . Take those lips away Which so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes , the break of day , ― Lights that do mislead the morn . The wild beauty of this hyperbole , I may say ...
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... youth on flame . Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing . Gowns , and pecuni- ary foundations , though of towns of gold , can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit . Forget ...
... youth on flame . Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing . Gowns , and pecuni- ary foundations , though of towns of gold , can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit . Forget ...
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... youth are now matters of calmest observation . They lie like fair pic- tures in the air . Not so with our recent actions , - with the business which we now have in hand . On this we are quite unable to speculate . Our affections as yet ...
... youth are now matters of calmest observation . They lie like fair pic- tures in the air . Not so with our recent actions , - with the business which we now have in hand . On this we are quite unable to speculate . Our affections as yet ...
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