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Página xiv
... seems one of the best . ' He found it so in 1833. But this and his two other voyages to Europe make no Odyssey . When Vol- taire was pressed to visit Rome , he declared that he would be better pleased with some new and free English book ...
... seems one of the best . ' He found it so in 1833. But this and his two other voyages to Europe make no Odyssey . When Vol- taire was pressed to visit Rome , he declared that he would be better pleased with some new and free English book ...
Página xvi
... seems to have soberly grown old in constant service . Mr. Emerson's study is a quiet room up- stairs . ' Fate did not spare him the strokes of the common lot . His first wife died after three short years of wedded happiness . He lost a ...
... seems to have soberly grown old in constant service . Mr. Emerson's study is a quiet room up- stairs . ' Fate did not spare him the strokes of the common lot . His first wife died after three short years of wedded happiness . He lost a ...
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... seem to deserve Wordsworth's description , as mere obliquities of admiration . Taken as a whole , Emerson's poetry is of that kind which springs , not from excitement of passion or feel- ing , but from an intellectual demand for intense ...
... seem to deserve Wordsworth's description , as mere obliquities of admiration . Taken as a whole , Emerson's poetry is of that kind which springs , not from excitement of passion or feel- ing , but from an intellectual demand for intense ...
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... seem to men nurtured in the venerable decorum of ecclesiastical tradition , was at bottom identical with the yearning for stronger spiritual emotions , and the cravings of religious zeal , that had in older times filled monasteries ...
... seem to men nurtured in the venerable decorum of ecclesiastical tradition , was at bottom identical with the yearning for stronger spiritual emotions , and the cravings of religious zeal , that had in older times filled monasteries ...
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... seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass , from every pine - stump and half - embedded stone on which the dull March sun shines , comes forth to the poor and hungry , and such as are of simple taste . If thou fill ...
... seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass , from every pine - stump and half - embedded stone on which the dull March sun shines , comes forth to the poor and hungry , and such as are of simple taste . If thou fill ...
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Página 46 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 18 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?
Página 74 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 91 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the "familiar, the low.
Página 68 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves.
Página 225 - ... according as that good man frequents the house. He entertains him, gives him gifts, feasts him, lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped, and sumptuously laid to sleep, rises, is saluted, and after the malmsey, or some...
Página 80 - If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town, — in the insight into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
Página 76 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 23 - Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
Página 36 - All things with which we deal, preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun, — it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.