 | Melville Best Anderson - 1896 - 94 pages
...especially his '' Essay on Shelley'' and the conclusion of '' The Ring and the Book." VII. EMERSON: "The Friend and Aider of those who would live in the Spirit." I. BIOGRAPHY (1803-1882). M. Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803. Fourth... | |
 | 1903 - 748 pages
...partial and exclusive. It must never be overlooked that Emerson's aim was exclusively practical. If he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit it was because it happened so, and not because of any special design on his part. He did not address... | |
 | 1913 - 638 pages
...greatest modern man " ; in the latter he discovered a temper " hopeful, serene and beautiful," and found the " friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." In 1845, three years after his father's death, Matthew Arnold was elected to a fellowship in Oriel... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1897 - 184 pages
...apostle in his calling, — in a very special sense, what Matthew Arnold so finely says of Emerson, "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." He was put and sustained in the place of service for which he was felt to be singularly fit, by the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...is the friend._andjiicler_of 5 those who would live in the .spirit.") £merson is the same. / He is the friend and aider of those who would live in' the spirit/ All the points in thinking which are necessary for this purpose he takes ; but he does not combine... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...spite of grave disqualifications. I was not impressed at the impressible age, and do not in any case belong to the class which takes most freely the impression...and Transcendentalists, I suppose, were people who professed to ' live in the spirit.' The name is alarming, but it represents a very harmless and a very... | |
 | Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1898 - 500 pages
...Arnold, after an elaborate statement of what he is not as a writer, declares succinctly what he is — " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." From such an one it is not to be expected that all the needs of man will derive sustenance, for man... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 540 pages
...; he is the friend and the aider of those who would live in the spirit. Emerson is the same. He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. All the points in thinking which are necessary for this purpose he takes ; but he does not combine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 284 pages
...imagination. That is surely the most potent of all influences ! nothing can come up to it. Emerson is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. ... As Wordsworth's poetry is, in my judgment, the most important work done in verse, in our language,... | |
 | 1899 - 136 pages
...gods, so let it be. Anytus and Meletus are able to kill me indeed, but to harm me, never." EMERSON. "The friend and aider of those who would live in the Spirit." Matthew Arnold. First Series of Essays. FROM " HISTORY." There is no great and no small To the Soul... | |
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Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. 
