Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page x
... true perspective , related to his own time and to that ever interesting movement of which he was the chief figure , the Transcendental Movement of New England . 66 Emerson was born ( the 25th May , 1803 , is the date of his birth ) at ...
... true perspective , related to his own time and to that ever interesting movement of which he was the chief figure , the Transcendental Movement of New England . 66 Emerson was born ( the 25th May , 1803 , is the date of his birth ) at ...
Page xi
... true Emersonian ring about some of her letters to him . She writes to cite one out of many tempting instances : " Solitude , which to people not talented to deviate from the beaten track is the safe ground of mediocrity ( without ...
... true Emersonian ring about some of her letters to him . She writes to cite one out of many tempting instances : " Solitude , which to people not talented to deviate from the beaten track is the safe ground of mediocrity ( without ...
Page xviii
... true Emersonian compensations . He says : - " Because I was content with these poor fields , Low , open meads , slender and sluggish streams , And found a home in haunts which others scorned , The partial wood - gods overpaid my love ...
... true Emersonian compensations . He says : - " Because I was content with these poor fields , Low , open meads , slender and sluggish streams , And found a home in haunts which others scorned , The partial wood - gods overpaid my love ...
Page xxi
... true reporting . I write anecdotes of the 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 ...
... true reporting . I write anecdotes of the 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 ...
Page xxv
... true , and it follows , as the night the day , thou can'st not then be false to any man . " It will perhaps strike the reader that there has been too much stress upon self , and that too little has been said about others . But it must ...
... true , and it follows , as the night the day , thou can'st not then be false to any man . " It will perhaps strike the reader that there has been too much stress upon self , and that too little has been said about others . But it must ...
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