Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 623 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action aristocracy beauty believe better born Boston boys Brook Farm called Carlyle character church Concord conversation Dæmon delight Demonology divine dreams duty Emerson England essay eternal eyes F. B. Sanborn fact feel force friends genius give Goethe Greek heart Heaven Henry Thoreau hero Hoar honor hope human inspired intellectual journal knew labor laws lecture live look Malden manners Margaret Fuller Massachusetts means ment mind moral Nature never noble Old North Bridge opinion passage persons Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poem poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson religion religious Ripley Samuel Hoar scholar secret seems sense sentiment society soul speak spirit superlative talent teach Theodore Parker things Thoreau thought tion true truth universal virtue whilst wise wish words writing wrote young youth
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Seite 96 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Seite 522 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Seite 551 - When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
Seite 482 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Seite 551 - The idioms of his language and the figures of his rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth ; and churches are not built on his principles, but on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before.
Seite 477 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Seite 470 - Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days. He drew • out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due. The Cypripedium not due till to-morrow.
Seite 342 - Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked, but had the American superficialness, and their studies were solitary.
Seite 455 - He declined invitations to dinner-parties, because there each was in every one's way, and he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. " They make their pride," he said, "in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little."1 When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,
Seite 537 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.