The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xii
... hours . " In his journal for 1841 Mr. Emerson wrote , " Seemed to me that I had the keeping of a secret too great to be confided to one man : that a divine man dwelt near me in a hollow tree . " And again , " All that is said of the ...
... hours . " In his journal for 1841 Mr. Emerson wrote , " Seemed to me that I had the keeping of a secret too great to be confided to one man : that a divine man dwelt near me in a hollow tree . " And again , " All that is said of the ...
Page xxxvii
... these wishes , I sup- pose , are ever only the buds of power , but up to this hour I have never had a true success in such attempts . " - From boyhood he had written verses , at first correct BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Xxxvii.
... these wishes , I sup- pose , are ever only the buds of power , but up to this hour I have never had a true success in such attempts . " - From boyhood he had written verses , at first correct BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Xxxvii.
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... hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression . made by manifold natural ...
... hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind . We mean the integrity of impression . made by manifold natural ...
Page 9
... hour and season yields its tribute of de- light ; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind , from breathless noon to grimmest midnight . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or ...
... hour and season yields its tribute of de- light ; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind , from breathless noon to grimmest midnight . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or ...
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... self . The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon . We are never tired , so long as we can see far enough . But in other hours , Nature satisfies by its loveliness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . 16 NATURE.
... self . The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon . We are never tired , so long as we can see far enough . But in other hours , Nature satisfies by its loveliness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . 16 NATURE.
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