Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page vi
... AIMS- LECTURE ON THE TIMES . THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MAN THE REFORMER POLITICS LITERATURE- 245 260 275 289 LITERARY ETHICS . 303 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 318 MILTON AND HIS WORKS 335 INTRODUCTION . " Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow ...
... AIMS- LECTURE ON THE TIMES . THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MAN THE REFORMER POLITICS LITERATURE- 245 260 275 289 LITERARY ETHICS . 303 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 318 MILTON AND HIS WORKS 335 INTRODUCTION . " Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow ...
Page ix
... aim , dictated by a conviction which finds frequent expression in his books , to suppress the personal equation , and to utter clear of accidental im- plications the revelations of that Universal Mind whose organ he believed himself and ...
... aim , dictated by a conviction which finds frequent expression in his books , to suppress the personal equation , and to utter clear of accidental im- plications the revelations of that Universal Mind whose organ he believed himself and ...
Page xi
... with the souls of other men ; of living and breathing , reading and writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn trifles , lift your aims INTRODUCTION . xi.
... with the souls of other men ; of living and breathing , reading and writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn trifles , lift your aims INTRODUCTION . xi.
Page xii
... aims ; do what you are afraid to do . Sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive . " This was the woman whose advice and opinions Emerson sought until he reached maturity . The date of Emerson's birth almost coincides ...
... aims ; do what you are afraid to do . Sublimity of character must come from sublimity of motive . " This was the woman whose advice and opinions Emerson sought until he reached maturity . The date of Emerson's birth almost coincides ...
Page xx
... aim to invest the ordinary actualities of life with the deeper meaning and ever fresh interest and beauty which they have for the poet and seer , and to show that celestial side " of them which we may see if we will but look aright . He ...
... aim to invest the ordinary actualities of life with the deeper meaning and ever fresh interest and beauty which they have for the poet and seer , and to show that celestial side " of them which we may see if we will but look aright . He ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write