The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellaneous piecesG. Bell & sons, 1905 |
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Página 78
... existence than any he saw around him , to be realized in the life and conversa- tion of men , inspired every act and every writing of John Milton . He defined the object of education to be , to fit a man to perform justly , skilfully ...
... existence than any he saw around him , to be realized in the life and conversa- tion of men , inspired every act and every writing of John Milton . He defined the object of education to be , to fit a man to perform justly , skilfully ...
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... existence of Shakespeare or Homer , ―advert to no books or arts , only to dread ideas and emotions . People imagine that the place which the Bible holds in the world , it owes to miracles . It owes it simply to the fact that it came out ...
... existence of Shakespeare or Homer , ―advert to no books or arts , only to dread ideas and emotions . People imagine that the place which the Bible holds in the world , it owes to miracles . It owes it simply to the fact that it came out ...
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... existence of the poorest play - wright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen . A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves en- rolled in the registers of the House of Fame , even as porters ...
... existence of the poorest play - wright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen . A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves en- rolled in the registers of the House of Fame , even as porters ...
Página 138
... existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men , must have a reason for its being . Its excellency is reason and vindication enough . If rhyme rejoices us there should be rhyme , as much as if fire cheers us , we should bring wood ...
... existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men , must have a reason for its being . Its excellency is reason and vindication enough . If rhyme rejoices us there should be rhyme , as much as if fire cheers us , we should bring wood ...
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... existence it proscribes . Poor Queen Victoria , -poor Sir Robert Peel , -poor Primate and Bishops , -poor Dukes and Lords ! There is no help in place or pride or in looking another way ; a grain of wit is more pene- trating than the ...
... existence it proscribes . Poor Queen Victoria , -poor Sir Robert Peel , -poor Primate and Bishops , -poor Dukes and Lords ! There is no help in place or pride or in looking another way ; a grain of wit is more pene- trating than the ...
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Página 309 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 79 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 310 - Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 84 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 81 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 88 - Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 257 - I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...
Página 86 - Latin ; as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would cast no ink without Latin ; or perhaps, as they thought, because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished.
Página 90 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Página 83 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its perfect fraught ; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...