Ralph Waldo EmersonCosimo, Inc., 1 de jan. de 2004 - 456 páginas Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose original profession and calling was as a Unitarian minister, left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. Emerson went on to become one of America's best-known and best-loved 19th century figures. Along with Thoreau, Hawthorne, Fuller, the Peabody sisters, the Alcott family, Jonas, Very, the Ripleys, and the Channings, Emerson helped shape a circle of poets, reformers, artists, and thinkers who helped to define a new identity for American art. In this biography, written by American physician, poet, and humorist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emerson's life is traced from his family genealogy through his childhood, his years in school, his ordination and early writings, to his years as a preeminent thinker, lecturer, poet, and writer. The book, originally published in 1885, even offers a look at the "future of his reputation" from the late 19th century point of view. |
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... known and believed . " So writes the man whose life we are to pass in review , and it is certainly as true of him as of any author we could name . He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees ...
... known and believed . " So writes the man whose life we are to pass in review , and it is certainly as true of him as of any author we could name . He delineates himself so perfectly in his various writings that the careful reader sees ...
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... his contemporaries . The Reverend Dr. Sprague's valuable and well - known work , " Annals of the American Pulpit , " contains three letters from which we learn some of his leading characteristics . Dr. Pierce of 10 INTRODUCTION .
... his contemporaries . The Reverend Dr. Sprague's valuable and well - known work , " Annals of the American Pulpit , " contains three letters from which we learn some of his leading characteristics . Dr. Pierce of 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... known as Bishop's Alley , now Hawley Street , he came out in Summer Street , very nearly opposite the spot where , at the beginning of this century , stood the parsonage of the First Church , the home of the Reverend William Em- erson ...
... known as Bishop's Alley , now Hawley Street , he came out in Summer Street , very nearly opposite the spot where , at the beginning of this century , stood the parsonage of the First Church , the home of the Reverend William Em- erson ...
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... known in him since . Still , he was not prom- inent in the class , and , but for what all the world has since known of him , his would not have been a con- spicuous figure to his classmates in recalling College days . " The fact that we ...
... known in him since . Still , he was not prom- inent in the class , and , but for what all the world has since known of him , his would not have been a con- spicuous figure to his classmates in recalling College days . " The fact that we ...
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... known to many sur- vivors . I am inclined to believe he had a most liberal .spirit . I remember that some years since , when it was known that our classmate was reduced almost to absolute want by the war , in which he lost his two sons ...
... known to many sur- vivors . I am inclined to believe he had a most liberal .spirit . I remember that some years since , when it was known that our classmate was reduced almost to absolute want by the war , in which he lost his two sons ...
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CHAPTER V | 116 |
CHAPTER VI | 179 |
The Massachusetts Quarterly Review Visit to | 193 |
Essay on Persian Poetry Speech at the Burns Centen | 224 |
CHAPTER X | 240 |
Lectures on the Natural History of the Intellect Publi | 249 |
Emerson Nominated | 280 |
tures and Biographical Sketches | 294 |
CHAPTER XIV | 310 |
CHAPTER XV | 343 |
CHAPTER XVI | 357 |
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Página 393 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,@ Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 118 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue ; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Página 94 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, fortunate fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Página 123 - The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Página 314 - DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Página 112 - 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 124 - Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. Look to it first and only, that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you — are not bandages over your eyes, that you cannot see — but live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind.
Página 109 - 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.
Página 106 - A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Página 122 - He spoke of miracles; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.