The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 101
... Five rosy boys with morning light Had leaped from one fair mother's arms , Fronted the sun with hope as bright , And greeted God with childhood's psalms . THOU shalt make thy house The temple of a nation's DOMESTIC LIFE ΙΟΙ.
... Five rosy boys with morning light Had leaped from one fair mother's arms , Fronted the sun with hope as bright , And greeted God with childhood's psalms . THOU shalt make thy house The temple of a nation's DOMESTIC LIFE ΙΟΙ.
Page 102
Ralph Waldo Emerson. THOU shalt make thy house The temple of a nation's vows Spirits of a higher strain Who sought thee once shall seek again I detected many a god Forth already on the road , Ancestors of beauty come In thy breast to ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. THOU shalt make thy house The temple of a nation's vows Spirits of a higher strain Who sought thee once shall seek again I detected many a god Forth already on the road , Ancestors of beauty come In thy breast to ...
Page 123
... thou- sands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model . Neither does the measurer him- self ; neither do the people in the street ; neither do the select individuals whom he admires , the heroes of the race . When he inspects ...
... thou- sands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model . Neither does the measurer him- self ; neither do the people in the street ; neither do the select individuals whom he admires , the heroes of the race . When he inspects ...
Page 175
... thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands , and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres , mummy - pits and old book - shops of Asia Minor , Egypt and England . It was the deep to - day which all men scorn ; the rich poverty ...
... thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands , and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres , mummy - pits and old book - shops of Asia Minor , Egypt and England . It was the deep to - day which all men scorn ; the rich poverty ...
Page 177
... thou must find it , if at all , by methods native to thyself alone . That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required . How wistfully , when we have promised to attend the working committee , we look at ...
... thou must find it , if at all , by methods native to thyself alone . That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required . How wistfully , when we have promised to attend the working committee , we look at ...
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