The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 |
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Page 442
... poet of the poor , anxious , cheerful , working humanity , so had hẹ the language of low life . He grew up in a rural district , speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives , and he has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of ...
... poet of the poor , anxious , cheerful , working humanity , so had hẹ the language of low life . He grew up in a rural district , speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives , and he has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of ...
Page 448
... poet of the world . Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition , and Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster , deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy . What shocks of sur- prise and sympathetic ...
... poet of the world . Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition , and Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster , deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy . What shocks of sur- prise and sympathetic ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. - faults and foibles incident to poets , from nervous egotism , sham modesty or jealousy . He ... poet and writer . It is a genius itself , and so defends from the insanities . Under what rare conjunction of stars ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. - faults and foibles incident to poets , from nervous egotism , sham modesty or jealousy . He ... poet and writer . It is a genius itself , and so defends from the insanities . Under what rare conjunction of stars ...
Page 494
... poet's library , intending to exclude him from it for three days , but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening . " And I verily believe I should have become insane , " says Petrarch , " if my mind had longer ...
... poet's library , intending to exclude him from it for three days , but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening . " And I verily believe I should have become insane , " says Petrarch , " if my mind had longer ...
Page 503
... a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude , it is like finding a bro- ther . Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith , - of whom he had once met , relished rhyme , said CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 503.
... a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude , it is like finding a bro- ther . Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith , - of whom he had once met , relished rhyme , said CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 503.
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