Emerson: And Other EssaysC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 247 páginas |
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Abolitionists American artist asceticism beauty Browning's character Charles Lamb CHIG UNIV conscience conservatism doctrine Emerson emotion England English essay eyes feel follow force genius give Guy Mannering hand Harriet Martineau heart human humor ideas imitate individual intellect Juliet language lecture light lines literary literature lived lyrical manner Margaret Fuller matter means ment Michael Angelo MICHI UNIV mind Moral Law mysticism nature ness never passion Phi Beta Kappa philosophy Plato play poems poet poetry prose reader religion revolt Robert Browning Romeo RSITY UNIV scene scholars seems sense Shakespeare society sonnets soul speak speech spirit stage Stevenson style talk things thou thought tion to-day Transcendentalists true truth Tybalt UNIV ERSIT UNIV UNIV UNIVE CHIG UNIVE SITY verse voice Walt Whitman Webster Weir of Hermiston whole wonder words writing written wrote young
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Página 95 - 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 19 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
Página 206 - Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — "When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared them of the glory — to drop down, To toil for man, to suffer or to die...
Página 87 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Página 144 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 20 - Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent!
Página 26 - In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
Página 18 - As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
Página 18 - The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around ; brooded thereon ; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life ; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business ; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact; now it is quick thought.
Página 42 - We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.