| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art ; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences, overpowers the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel... | |
| Ann Jane - 1869 - 302 pages
...thought ; and meditating upon them and her cousin's words, she knelt down to pray. ( To be continued.) THOUGH we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. THE WIDOWER AND THE MOTHERLESS. NO* V. " In the still air the music lies unheard ; In tlio rough marble,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...natural objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected—the work of genius. And the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpowers the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...sometimes. GRATITUDE is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the bree«e of kindness. THOUGH we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. WAR is an inheritance of the savage state, disguised by ingenious institutions and false eloquence.... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art ; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences, overpowers the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences, overpowers the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel... | |
| 430 pages
...despatch of a strong one. THE virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. THOUGH we travel the world over to find the Beautiful, we must carry it within us, or we find it not. THE soul clings in the midst of the infinity of worlds and planets to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art ; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple tastes and susceptibility...travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must cany it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in... | |
| 318 pages
...happiness below." Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we findit not. The real value of the Iliad, or the Transfiguration, is as signs of power — billows or... | |
| Eliza Rooke - 1854 - 200 pages
...away, but which, nevertheless, will make, at the end of it, no small deduction from the life of man." " Though we travel the world over, to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us, or find it not." READER ! I have, with no small effort, carried you through many pages.... | |
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