The Works of Lord Morley, Volume 6Macmillan and Company, limited, 1921 |
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... whenever the word of the student was needed Emerson was ready to give the highest expression to all that was best in his country- " " men's mood during that greatest ordeal of their time . EMERSON 15 And the Civil War.
... whenever the word of the student was needed Emerson was ready to give the highest expression to all that was best in his country- " " men's mood during that greatest ordeal of their time . EMERSON 15 And the Civil War.
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... expression , " the talent is not the chief question here : -the idea- that is the chief question . " We do not profess to be of those to whom mere style is as dear as it was to Plutarch ; of him it was said that he would have made ...
... expression , " the talent is not the chief question here : -the idea- that is the chief question . " We do not profess to be of those to whom mere style is as dear as it was to Plutarch ; of him it was said that he would have made ...
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... expression as he was pure , diligent , and harmonious in his thinking . Yet , as happens to all fine minds , there came to Emerson ways of expression deeply marked with character . On every page there are set the strong stamp of ...
... expression as he was pure , diligent , and harmonious in his thinking . Yet , as happens to all fine minds , there came to Emerson ways of expression deeply marked with character . On every page there are set the strong stamp of ...
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... expression . We see the step that lifts him straight from prose to verse , and that step is the shortest possible . The flight is awkward and even uncouth , as if nature had intended feet rather than wings . It is hard to feel of Emer ...
... expression . We see the step that lifts him straight from prose to verse , and that step is the shortest possible . The flight is awkward and even uncouth , as if nature had intended feet rather than wings . It is hard to feel of Emer ...
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... expression make Emer- son's essays oracular and his verse prophetic . But , to borrow Horace's well - known phrase , ' tis not enough that poems should be sublime ; dulcia sunto , -they must be touching and sympathetic . Only a bold ...
... expression make Emer- son's essays oracular and his verse prophetic . But , to borrow Horace's well - known phrase , ' tis not enough that poems should be sublime ; dulcia sunto , -they must be touching and sympathetic . Only a bold ...
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Page 221 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Page 109 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 304 - They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers: But they fed not on the advancing hours: Their hearts held cravings for the buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life...
Page 159 - The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 136 - twere, anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!— The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.— 'Twas such a night!
Page 159 - I trust is their destiny, to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Page 88 - The light which enlightens, which has enlightened the darkness of the world ; and this not as a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining by the gift of Heaven ; a flowing light-fountain, as I say, of native original insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness ; — in whose radiance all souls feel that it is well with them.
Page 111 - It is not noon ; the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 28 - The criticism and attack on institutions which we have witnessed has made one thing plain, that society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him...
Page 229 - My function is that of the aesthetic, not the doctrinal teacher, — the rousing of the nobler emotions, which make mankind desire the social right, not the prescribing of special measures, concerning which the artistic mind, however strongly moved by social sympathy, is often not the best judge.