Emerson at Home and AbroadJ. R. Osgood, 1882 - 383 páginas |
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... light began to travel beside me . Strange that I should have been so long nearly a year unconscious of the abyss be- tween what I was thinking and what I was doing ! My congregations grew ominously still ; elders shook their heads , and ...
... light began to travel beside me . Strange that I should have been so long nearly a year unconscious of the abyss be- tween what I was thinking and what I was doing ! My congregations grew ominously still ; elders shook their heads , and ...
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... light when I whispered to myself , " Yours , in all good hope . " My heart learned this note , and sang it to me in many a night of loneliness and poverty . At last the day came when I stood at the door of Emerson . I had entered the ...
... light when I whispered to myself , " Yours , in all good hope . " My heart learned this note , and sang it to me in many a night of loneliness and poverty . At last the day came when I stood at the door of Emerson . I had entered the ...
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... any wealth can ever make him , because of that visit from the sower of new souls . Soon afterwards I started there a monthly magazine , the " Dial . " This • effort to light our Western torch at the finest flame A VIGIL . 13.
... any wealth can ever make him , because of that visit from the sower of new souls . Soon afterwards I started there a monthly magazine , the " Dial . " This • effort to light our Western torch at the finest flame A VIGIL . 13.
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Moncure Daniel Conway. effort to light our Western torch at the finest flame of our East , announced in reproducing the title of the old transcendental Quarterly , received sympathy from Emerson , who contributed to it his essay on ...
Moncure Daniel Conway. effort to light our Western torch at the finest flame of our East , announced in reproducing the title of the old transcendental Quarterly , received sympathy from Emerson , who contributed to it his essay on ...
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... light snow lay on the ground , but Priscilla's eye perceived a little flower peeping through it . " Stay , Captain Standish , " she said , but was too late to prevent his heavy boot from treading on it . John Alden made haste to pick ...
... light snow lay on the ground , but Priscilla's eye perceived a little flower peeping through it . " Stay , Captain Standish , " she said , but was too late to prevent his heavy boot from treading on it . John Alden made haste to pick ...
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Página 163 - 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 259 - I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties, or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them, in another state of being. At all events, I the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred by them — as I have heard, and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race for many a long year back would argue to exist — may...
Página 163 - 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 wardrobe?
Página 152 - ... behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
Página 151 - 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 169 - I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also. The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
Página 151 - All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven, every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life, every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal-mine, every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of...
Página 373 - A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...
Página 164 - In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended. Free should the scholar be, — free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, " without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
Página 166 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them 179