The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumen4Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... reader's joy in literary genius . Nothing is kept back . There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore . Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language , and can say ...
... reader's joy in literary genius . Nothing is kept back . There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore . Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language , and can say ...
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... , Bruno , Locke , Rous- seau , Alfieri , Coleridge , is some reader of Plato , translating into the vernacular , wittily , his good things . Even the men of grander pro- portion suffer some deduction from the mis- fortune ( shall.
... , Bruno , Locke , Rous- seau , Alfieri , Coleridge , is some reader of Plato , translating into the vernacular , wittily , his good things . Even the men of grander pro- portion suffer some deduction from the mis- fortune ( shall.
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... reader in New England an American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sec- tional lines . This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , - what are genuine , what spurious . It ...
... reader in New England an American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sec- tional lines . This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , - what are genuine , what spurious . It ...
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... readers most resem- bles them . Plato especially has no external bio- graphy . If he had lover , wife , or children , we hear nothing of them . He ground them all into paint . As a good chimney burns its smoke , so a philosopher ...
... readers most resem- bles them . Plato especially has no external bio- graphy . If he had lover , wife , or children , we hear nothing of them . He ground them all into paint . As a good chimney burns its smoke , so a philosopher ...
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... reader , and he abounds in the surprises of a literary master . He has that opulence which furnishes , at every turn , the precise weapon he needs . As the rich man wears no more gar- ments , drives no more horses , sits in no more ...
... reader , and he abounds in the surprises of a literary master . He has that opulence which furnishes , at every turn , the precise weapon he needs . As the rich man wears no more gar- ments , drives no more horses , sits in no more ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admirable appears battle of Austerlitz beauty Behmen believe better Bonaparte Carlyle century character church culture dæmons delight divine doctrine earth Emer Emerson Emerson records England English essay Europe existence expression eyes fact faith Faust genius Goethe heaven hero honor human ideas intellect John Sterling journal Julius Cæsar knew labor learned lecture live look Lord Elgin mankind means ment merit mind modern Montaigne moral Napoleon nature ness never numbers original Parmenides persons Phædo philosophy plant Plato play Plutarch Poems poet poetic poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Garnett scholar secret seems sense sentence sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's skepticism society Socrates soul speak spirit Sweden Swedenborg Swedenborgian talent tell Theuth things thou thought tion translation truth universal verse virtue whilst wise word write wrote youth
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Página 88 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 305 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Página 320 - ... souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
Página 349 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Página 341 - I will write it, — that there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans.
Página 14 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Página 339 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life.
Página 316 - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey...
Página 39 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
Página 6 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.