Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xvii
... face of intimidation , showed the heroic strain in the man . No nobler words , no more splendid scorn , came from the lips of any of his contem- b poraries than fell from him when speaking of slavery , INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... face of intimidation , showed the heroic strain in the man . No nobler words , no more splendid scorn , came from the lips of any of his contem- b poraries than fell from him when speaking of slavery , INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Page xix
... face only , and emphasizing his prominent features . Emer- son is , no doubt , before all else a poet ; for he habitually views life , and would have others view it , through the imagination . But he is , besides being a poet , a ...
... face only , and emphasizing his prominent features . Emer- son is , no doubt , before all else a poet ; for he habitually views life , and would have others view it , through the imagination . But he is , besides being a poet , a ...
Page xxxiii
... face of the sorrow and discourage- ment which confront us . In the last resort , Emerson's function is , as Whitman well says , to educate beyond himself . His books are most of all a discipline in self - knowledge , self - reliance ...
... face of the sorrow and discourage- ment which confront us . In the last resort , Emerson's function is , as Whitman well says , to educate beyond himself . His books are most of all a discipline in self - knowledge , self - reliance ...
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... faces of three or four writers — Coleridge , Wordsworth , Landor , De Quincey , and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals , Carlyle ; and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe , when I was ...
... faces of three or four writers — Coleridge , Wordsworth , Landor , De Quincey , and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals , Carlyle ; and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe , when I was ...
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... face was so handsome , and his person so well formed , that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora , and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were idealisations of his own . Greenough was a superior ...
... face was so handsome , and his person so well formed , that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora , and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were idealisations of his own . Greenough was a superior ...
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