The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson: As Observed in Concord, May 25, 1903Printed at the Riverside Press for the Social circle in Concord, 1903 - 136 páginas |
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A. V. DICEY ADDRESS admiration anniversary beauty better Boötes Bowers boys Carlyle celebration Chairman character CHARLES EDWARD BROWN CHARLES ELIOT NORTON CIRCLE IN CONCORD College Committee Concord Hymn delight divine duty Edinburgh Emer Emerson Hall England eternal express faith father feel GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR Glasgow Glasgow University Harvard hear heard heart honor hope human hundred influence inspired invitation KEYES lecture lives LOREN BENJAMIN MACDONALD meeting mind MOORFIELD STOREY morning nature neighbors never nigh is grandeur philosophy poet poetry preached present Professor pupils Ralph Waldo Emerson recall Rhodora SAMUEL HOAR School seems seer singing Social Circle soul speak spirit spoke star sung teachers things THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Thou thought tion TITMOUSE to-day town truth University uttered vision voice walk WILLIAM LORENZO EATON women words wrote young youth
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Página 77 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 28 - Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime ; " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Página 93 - The chief end of man is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever.
Página 128 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Página 27 - Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told : Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old. Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
Página 18 - From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
Página 17 - Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
Página 20 - A ferry of the free. And henceforth there shall be no chain, Save underneath the sea The wires shall murmur through the main Sweet songs of liberty. The conscious stars accord above, The waters wild below, And under, through the cable wove, Her fiery errands go. For He that worketh high and wise, Nor pauses in his plan, Will take the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man.
Página 71 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Página 24 - Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.