Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxi
... intellect , a sort of Farmers ' Almanac of mental moods . " There is a touch of waywardness about this , but it con- tains an important element of truth . The baffled reader of Emerson will perhaps see in it an explanation of his ...
... intellect , a sort of Farmers ' Almanac of mental moods . " There is a touch of waywardness about this , but it con- tains an important element of truth . The baffled reader of Emerson will perhaps see in it an explanation of his ...
Page 13
... intellect and dead conservatism ; world - wide enterprise , and devoted use and wont ; aggressive freedom and hospitable law , with bitter class - legislation ; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole ...
... intellect and dead conservatism ; world - wide enterprise , and devoted use and wont ; aggressive freedom and hospitable law , with bitter class - legislation ; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole ...
Page 37
... intellect . It is not less seen in poetry . Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses . Shakespeare , Spenser , and Milton , in their loftiest ascents , have this national grip and exactitude of mind . This ...
... intellect . It is not less seen in poetry . Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses . Shakespeare , Spenser , and Milton , in their loftiest ascents , have this national grip and exactitude of mind . This ...
Page 41
... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness , and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning ...
... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness , and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning ...
Page 43
... intellect as a temporality , and appeals to the worldly ambition of the student . His romances tend to fan these low flames . Their novelists despair of the heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in ...
... intellect as a temporality , and appeals to the worldly ambition of the student . His romances tend to fan these low flames . Their novelists despair of the heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in ...
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