 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 23by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...associate themselves fitly in our memory with the whole geography and climate of Greece. The visible heavens and earth sympathise with Jesus. And in... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...eqnal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of eqnal scope, and the frame will snit the picture. A virtuous man is in unison with her works, and makes... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture. HYMN. [Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836.] BY the rude bridge that arched... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus. And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius, will have remarked... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1893 - 250 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...geography and climate of Greece. The visible heavens and the earth sympathize with Jesus. And in common life whoever has seen a person of powerful character... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1893 - 250 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...geography and climate of Greece. The visible heavens and the earth sympathize with Jesus. And in common life whoever has seen a person of powerful character... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 pages
...the lashings having given way ; only what is the use of a guinea amongst tangle and sea gulls ? 17. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture. SPECIAL REMARKS. As if. 301. As if is often used as one conjunction of manner, but really there is... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...and makes the central figure of the visible sphere. Beside the relation of things to virtue, they have a relation to thought. The intellect searches out... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus. And in common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius, will have remarked... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pages
...equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling...visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus." In all the literature of poetry there is no more wonderful color-painting in words than in Emily Dickinson's,... | |
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