The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traitsHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 401 - Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 110 - Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land, which they walked over and tilled, had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood...
Page 358 - Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Page 15 - Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
Page 98 - The greater part, in value, of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Page 352 - tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 368 - Celebrated Trials connected with the Aristocracy in the Relations of Private Life.
Page 349 - With blare of bugle, clamour of men, Roll of cannon and clash of arms, And England pouring on her foes. Such a war had such a close.
Page 109 - Every class has its noble and tender examples. Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high. The motive and end of their trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
Page 326 - Practical Christianity, or an Account of the Holiness which the Gospel enjoins." Page 8, note 2. A friend informs me that the following hexameters of Julius Caesar, the only specimen of his verse that we have, are found in an extract from the life of Terentius by Suetonius, preserved by Donatus in the introduction to his commentary on this poet.