Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page viii
... writer who appealed to generous minds everywhere . His countrymen soon found that , strikingly national in spirit as his work was , it had besides the rare and eminent qualities which gave it rank with the classics of Europe . It is ...
... writer who appealed to generous minds everywhere . His countrymen soon found that , strikingly national in spirit as his work was , it had besides the rare and eminent qualities which gave it rank with the classics of Europe . It is ...
Page ix
... writer ; he never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was aware of his insufficiency in this respect , and makes several confessions in his ...
... writer ; he never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was aware of his insufficiency in this respect , and makes several confessions in his ...
Page xi
... writes to cite one out of many tempting instances : " Solitude , which to people not talented to deviate from the ... writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn ...
... writes to cite one out of many tempting instances : " Solitude , which to people not talented to deviate from the ... writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn ...
Page xvi
... writing that was weak and futile , the contributions of the editors and Thoreau and Hedge stand out for their exceptional merit . The four volumes of the magazine constitute a unique record of the movement in the hey - day of its ...
... writing that was weak and futile , the contributions of the editors and Thoreau and Hedge stand out for their exceptional merit . The four volumes of the magazine constitute a unique record of the movement in the hey - day of its ...
Page xix
... writer has avoided traversing ground covered by Mr. Dircks in his sketch of Concord and Transcendental times and persons prefixed to Thoreau's Walden in this Series . 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the INTRODUCTION ...
... writer has avoided traversing ground covered by Mr. Dircks in his sketch of Concord and Transcendental times and persons prefixed to Thoreau's Walden in this Series . 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the INTRODUCTION ...
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