Essays and Poems of EmersonHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 525 pages |
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... force but is very inadequate . Emerson lives , still speaks pertinently of our current affairs , and tomorrow we shall still find him commenting with equal pertinency on tomor- row's affairs . To know him is not mere knowledge . It is ...
... force but is very inadequate . Emerson lives , still speaks pertinently of our current affairs , and tomorrow we shall still find him commenting with equal pertinency on tomor- row's affairs . To know him is not mere knowledge . It is ...
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... force in our own times , what it most concerns us to inquire about him is what he can do for us . If we approach him with that question , we need not tarry long over bio- graphical details , interesting and rewarding as they may be to ...
... force in our own times , what it most concerns us to inquire about him is what he can do for us . If we approach him with that question , we need not tarry long over bio- graphical details , interesting and rewarding as they may be to ...
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... force of new moral life within him . To the pos- terity of Franklin and Edwards , Emerson is the destined and appropriate counsellor because he brings them undi- minished the vital force of their great traditions , while at the same ...
... force of new moral life within him . To the pos- terity of Franklin and Edwards , Emerson is the destined and appropriate counsellor because he brings them undi- minished the vital force of their great traditions , while at the same ...
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... force , as modern science teaches us , is not destroyed but resumed and con- served in the all - encompassing energy of the universe , and is recreated forever and ever in new shapes of men and things . In like fashion , as it appeared ...
... force , as modern science teaches us , is not destroyed but resumed and con- served in the all - encompassing energy of the universe , and is recreated forever and ever in new shapes of men and things . In like fashion , as it appeared ...
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... forces , all the wisdom and all the virtues that have ever been in the world . However we may attempt to explain , or to explain away , his sensations , he himself is incontro- vertibly convinced that he has been visited and breathed ...
... forces , all the wisdom and all the virtues that have ever been in the world . However we may attempt to explain , or to explain away , his sensations , he himself is incontro- vertibly convinced that he has been visited and breathed ...
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ESSAYS & POEMS OF EMERSON Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Emerson,Stuart Pratt 1881-1926 Sherman No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 155 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 470 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 450 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page xxv - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Page 449 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, they sang to my eye.
Page 469 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you...
Page 151 - Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 470 - Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn; Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Page 31 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Page 291 - The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.