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... sure that his jubilant cheeriness was no less when he turned his back on all this and left the flesh - pots of Egypt for a dinner of herbs at Brook Farm . There is something very interesting and not wholly accidental in the way in which ...
... sure that his jubilant cheeriness was no less when he turned his back on all this and left the flesh - pots of Egypt for a dinner of herbs at Brook Farm . There is something very interesting and not wholly accidental in the way in which ...
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... to " going to heaven in a swing . " All the peculiarities of Brook Farm , we may be sure , were reported without diminu- them in Emerson's phrase , 66 come full circle . The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Period . 9.
... to " going to heaven in a swing . " All the peculiarities of Brook Farm , we may be sure , were reported without diminu- them in Emerson's phrase , 66 come full circle . The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Period . 9.
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... sure that we know all the keys to in- dividual character . The freedom that belonged to the period , the sunny at- mosphere of existence , doubtless made some men indolent , like children of the tropics . Some went abroad and lived in ...
... sure that we know all the keys to in- dividual character . The freedom that belonged to the period , the sunny at- mosphere of existence , doubtless made some men indolent , like children of the tropics . Some went abroad and lived in ...
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... sure , after he got there , and would no more have denied himself that innocent relaxation in jail than a typical French nobleman in Revolutionary days would have laid aside his snuff - box in the presence of the guillotine . A similar ...
... sure , after he got there , and would no more have denied himself that innocent relaxation in jail than a typical French nobleman in Revolutionary days would have laid aside his snuff - box in the presence of the guillotine . A similar ...
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... sure he would have liked your thought for him . He was always so fond of what you did , of you . " " Dear uncle , " she murmured to her- self . Although the dead man was not connected with her by any ties of blood , she had grown into ...
... sure he would have liked your thought for him . He was always so fond of what you did , of you . " " Dear uncle , " she murmured to her- self . Although the dead man was not connected with her by any ties of blood , she had grown into ...
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Page 244 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 336 - Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', in allen Wipfeln spürest du kaum einen Hauch; die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde ruhest du auch.
Page 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 711 - The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 692 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 177 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Page 108 - We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears : That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love ; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
Page 6 - For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Page 375 - I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God.
Page 337 - ... ,"Go thy ways, and God bless thee, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish.