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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 15
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1834 ..., Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 416 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson. Recollections of his Visits to England. By Alexander Ireland. London, 1882, p. 53. conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern...anecdote, and with a streaming humor which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the most familiar objects, put the companion...
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834 ..., Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 396 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson. Recollections of his Visits to England. By Alexander Ireland. London, 1882, p. 53. conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern...anecdote, and with a streaming humor which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the most familiar objects, put the companion...
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834 ..., Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 394 pages
...By Alexander Ireland. London, 1882, p. 53. conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern 1 accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the most familiar objects, put the companion...
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Lives Great and Simple

Sarah A. Tooley - 1884 - 300 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation...easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with evidentrelish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which floated everything he looked...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,...
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The Brotherhood of Letters

John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...if holding in his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which floated everything he looked upon. . . . Few were the objects, and lonely the man —...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the familiar objects,...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the familiar objects,...
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The Diamond Necklace

Thomas Carlyle - 1892 - 188 pages
...Emerson thus describes Carlyle as he appeared in 1833 : " He was tall and gaunt with a cliff-like brow, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation...lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor which flooded everything he looked upon." A recent biographer, Richard Garnett, describes him as he delivered...
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Readings from Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 300 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed and holding his extraordinary powers...relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the familiar objects,...
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