 I thought there was a tragic element in the event, that might be more fully rendered, — in the painful solitude of the man, which, I suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it.  A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 376by James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 809 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1914 - 540 pages
...or mourning was hardly suggested, and Holmes said to me that it looked like a happy meeting. . . . " I thought there was a tragic element in the event...of it. " I have found in his death a surprise and disappointment. I thought him a greater man than any of his works betray, that there was still a great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1914 - 596 pages
...of life, shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature, and, like Jesus, was the friend of sinners. I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...died of it. I have found in his death a surprise and disappointment. I thought him a greater man than any of his works betray, that there was still a great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1914 - 594 pages
...of life, shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature, and, like Jesus, was the friend of sinners. event, that might be more fully rendered, — in the...died of it. I have found in his death a surprise and disappointment. I thought him a greater man than any of his works betray, that there was still a great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1914 - 590 pages
...shades of life, shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature,and,like Jesus, was the friend of sinners. I thought there was a tragic element in the event, that might be more fully rendered,—in the painful solitude of the man, which, I suppose, could not longer be endured, and... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - American literature - 1917 - 624 pages
...James Freeman Clarke that the novelist had "shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1921 - 316 pages
...James Freeman Clarke that the novelist had "shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...James Freeman Clarke that the novelist had "shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1921 - 314 pages
...James Freeman Clarke that the novelist had "shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "I thought there was a tragic element in the event,...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
..."shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "I thought there was a tragic element ui the event, that might be more fully rendered, —...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - American literature - 1922 - 456 pages
...Freeman Clarke that the novelist had "shown a sympathy with the crime in our nature," and adds: "T!, thought there was a tragic element in the event, that...suppose, could not longer be endured, and he died of it." A touch of this romantic isolation, though never morose or "painful," there was in himself, a failure... | |
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