Literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson. France and Voltaire. Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Frederick the Great and Macaulay. Albert Dürer. The Brothers Grimm. Bettina Von Arnim. Dante on [i.e. And] the Recent Italian StruggleCupples, Upham, 1886 - 297 páginas |
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Página 30 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 5 - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Página 148 - Ambition, interest, the desire of making people talk about me, carried the day ; and I decided for war.
Página 31 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us. and not the history of theirs?
Página 43 - Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men ; they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and actually, or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
Página 43 - The search after the great is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. We travel into foreign parts to find his works, — if possible, to get a glimpse of him. But we are put off with fortune instead. You say the English are practical; the Germans are hospitable; in Valencia the climate is delicious; and in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering. Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable...
Página 31 - Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded 5 wardrobe ? The sun shines to-day also.