The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xi
... objects of my study and love . Sooner or later all men will be my friends and will testify in all methods the energy of their regards . Such is the hero's attitude in facing life , Em- erson said , in one of his early lectures . After ...
... objects of my study and love . Sooner or later all men will be my friends and will testify in all methods the energy of their regards . Such is the hero's attitude in facing life , Em- erson said , in one of his early lectures . After ...
Page 7
... certain reverence , because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Na- ture never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the.
... certain reverence , because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Na- ture never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the.
Page 8
... objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field ...
... objects . It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood - cutter from the tree of the poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field ...
Page 15
... objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer ...
... objects , of what character soever , into a well colored and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer ...
Page 21
... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its 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 ...
... objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its 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 ...
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