The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traitsHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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American aristocracy Arthur Hugh Clough Bacon beautiful Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich Britain British Carlyle Celt century Chartist church civil Coleridge Duke Earl Emer Emerson wrote England English nature English Traits Englishman Europe eyes France French genius give Greek heart Heimskringla honor Horatio Greenough horse House hundred intellect island John John Sterling journal King labor land Landor lectures letter lish live London look Lord Lord Eldon manners ment miles mind nation nature never noble Oxford Parliament persons philosophy Plato poems poet poetry politics praise race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich Saxon scholars Shakspeare ship Sir Charles Fellowes social society speak stone Stonehenge Tacitus talent taste Tennyson thing thought thousand tion told tone trade truth wealth whilst Wordsworth writes
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Seite 401 - Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Seite 110 - Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land, which they walked over and tilled, had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood...
Seite 358 - Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Seite 15 - Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
Seite 98 - The greater part, in value, of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Seite 352 - tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Seite 368 - Celebrated Trials connected with the Aristocracy in the Relations of Private Life.
Seite 349 - With blare of bugle, clamour of men, Roll of cannon and clash of arms, And England pouring on her foes. Such a war had such a close.
Seite 109 - Every class has its noble and tender examples. Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high. The motive and end of their trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
Seite 326 - Practical Christianity, or an Account of the Holiness which the Gospel enjoins." Page 8, note 2. A friend informs me that the following hexameters of Julius Caesar, the only specimen of his verse that we have, are found in an extract from the life of Terentius by Suetonius, preserved by Donatus in the introduction to his commentary on this poet.