The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 6
... talents determined on some specialty , which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities and in royal chambers . Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ...
... talents determined on some specialty , which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities and in royal chambers . Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ...
Page 66
... talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the ora- tor . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . Ifany- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence of ...
... talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the ora- tor . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . Ifany- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence of ...
Page 70
... talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? ' The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the ...
... talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? ' The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the ...
Page 71
... talent ? See with what care and pleasure the poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a ...
... talent ? See with what care and pleasure the poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a ...
Page 74
... talent , though it be , in so many cases , nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither ...
... talent , though it be , in so many cases , nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better Boston called character charm civil club conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson England essay eternal experience fact feel genius give Goethe Hafiz heard heart heaven hour human imagination immortality inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal labor learned lecture live look Madame de Staël manners Margaret Fuller master mind moral nations Nature never Odoacer orator Over-Soul passage persons Phi Beta Kappa Pindar plants Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar seems sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates solitude song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought tion truth ture verses voice whilst wise wish words write wrote young youth Zoroaster