Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... seen , in making that barren rock of semi - Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty . " Going out , he showed me in the next apartment a picture of Allston's , and told me that Montague , a picture - dealer , once came to ...
... seen , in making that barren rock of semi - Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty . " Going out , he showed me in the next apartment a picture of Allston's , and told me that Montague , a picture - dealer , once came to ...
Page 25
... seen , is the wealth of England , a mighty mass , and made good in whatever details we care to explore . The cause and spring of it is the wealth of temperament in the people . The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature . Her ...
... seen , is the wealth of England , a mighty mass , and made good in whatever details we care to explore . The cause and spring of it is the wealth of temperament in the people . The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature . Her ...
Page 37
... 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 mental materialism makes ...
... 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 mental materialism makes ...
Page 51
... seen from the farthest star . But this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweet- ness into their unaccommodating manners , no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English . What ...
... seen from the farthest star . But this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweet- ness into their unaccommodating manners , no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English . What ...
Page 52
... seen them walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage , and their com- panions seemed bags of bones . There is cramp limitation in their habit of thought , sleepy routine , and a tortoise's instinct to hold ...
... seen them walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage , and their com- panions seemed bags of bones . There is cramp limitation in their habit of thought , sleepy routine , and a tortoise's instinct to hold ...
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