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 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pages
...book and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - Christianity - 1850 - 578 pages
...book and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that in the cemetery of Pere la... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if 1 hud myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1838, that in the cemetery of Pere la... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight ami wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, iu euiue former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1871 - 588 pages
...translation in his father's library, he read it with delight and wonder : " It seemed," says ho, " as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience." This from a boy, fresh in thought and imagination, upon whom mere cold... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - Literature - 1867 - 316 pages
...was the origin of that gentleman's admiration for the Essayist. " It seemed " to me," he confesses, " as if I had myself written " the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke " to my thought and experience."* * This appears to be the case with others besides Mr. Emerson. The... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - Literature - 1867 - 316 pages
...was the origin of that gentleman's admiration for the Essayist. " It seemed " to me," he confesses, " as if I had myself written " the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke " to my thought and experience."* * This appears to be the case with others besides Mr. Emerson. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la... | |
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