“The” Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims. 1883Macmillan, 1903 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds character Charles Lamb command conversation Dean CHURCH death delight divine earth eloquence ESSAYS eternal existence experience express fact fancy feel force Gawain genius give Goethe Hafiz hand heard heart heaven hints human imagination immortality inspiration intellect J. A. SYMONDS king labour laws learned live look Madame de Staël manners matter mind moral Nachiketas nations Nature never once orator perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry politics religion rhyme scholar secret seen sense sentiment Shakspeare Simorg Sir RICHARD JEBB sleep society song soul speak speech spirit Swedenborg talent thee things thou thought Timur tion true truth verse virtue voice Vols whilst whole William Blake wise words write Zoroaster
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 36 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Seite 140 - We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
Seite 42 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Seite 36 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Seite 208 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Seite 66 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Seite 73 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Seite 122 - In times of peace, an Indian, (Not out of malice, but mere zeal, Because he was an Infidel...
Seite 240 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Seite 147 - ... inventors, and wits, men and women, English, German, Celt, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt, — back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd, — back to the first negro, who, with more health or better perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with ? Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech, word by word. Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone...