Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page vii
... genius ; and even while he lived , his little village of Concord had become to the best of his countrymen , far and near , a place of pilgrimage and revered memory , such as Grasmere is to us of England , or Weimar to the pious German ...
... genius ; and even while he lived , his little village of Concord had become to the best of his countrymen , far and near , a place of pilgrimage and revered memory , such as Grasmere is to us of England , or Weimar to the pious German ...
Page x
... genius . What he owed to his parentage - to the eight generations of New England preachers whose virtues he epitomised - has often been stated , and needs but bare mention here . If , as Emerson says , every man is a quotation from all ...
... genius . What he owed to his parentage - to the eight generations of New England preachers whose virtues he epitomised - has often been stated , and needs but bare mention here . If , as Emerson says , every man is a quotation from all ...
Page xi
... genius the only sure labyrinth -though sometimes gloomy - to form the eagle wing that will bear one farther than suns and stars . . . . Would to Providence that your unfoldings might be there ! —that it were not a wild and fruitless ...
... genius the only sure labyrinth -though sometimes gloomy - to form the eagle wing that will bear one farther than suns and stars . . . . Would to Providence that your unfoldings might be there ! —that it were not a wild and fruitless ...
Page xviii
... genius loci of its own . Nor was it indeed without some graces and glories of scenery ; for had it not the haunted pine woods and crystal ponds of Walden ; its distant boundary hills , the stately Monadnoc and Wachusett ; its winding ...
... genius loci of its own . Nor was it indeed without some graces and glories of scenery ; for had it not the haunted pine woods and crystal ponds of Walden ; its distant boundary hills , the stately Monadnoc and Wachusett ; its winding ...
Page xix
... genius of this man , became a movement that has left a noble and indelible mark upon the life of growing America , and constitutes an attractive and stimulating chapter in the history of human development . * II . " I am born a poet ...
... genius of this man , became a movement that has left a noble and indelible mark upon the life of growing America , and constitutes an attractive and stimulating chapter in the history of human development . * II . " I am born a poet ...
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