 I believe I fancied her too much interested in personal history ; and her talk was a comedy in which dramatic justice was done to everybody's foibles. I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics,...  The American Whig Review - Seite 3511852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Margaret Fuller - 1903 - 260 Seiten
...laugh more than I liked ; for I was at that time an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism, and I found something profane...I returned to my library, had much to think of the cracking of thorns under a pot. Margaret, who had stuffed me out as a philosopher in her own fancy,... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1911 - 616 Seiten
...eager scholar of ethics and one who had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism," and he adds that " I found something profane in the hours of amusing...to omit any art of winning. She studied my tastes, challenged frankness by frankness, and was curious to know my opinions and experiences." Emerson records... | |
 | Katharine Susan Anthony - 1920 - 240 Seiten
...father's death, Margaret resolved to have Emerson for her guide and mentor and had set out to win him. " Margaret, who had stuffed me out as a philosopher in her own fancy," reads Emerson's account, " was too intent on establishing a good footing between us, to omit any art... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1873 - 794 Seiten
...laugh more than I liked ; for I was at that time an eager scholar of Ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism ; and I found something profane...any art of winning. She studied my tastes, piqued and amused me, challenged frankness by frankness, and did not conceal the good opinion of me she had... | |
 | Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best - 156 Seiten
...laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism, and I found something profane...had much to think of the crackling of thorns under a pot."10 The honesty of this account of sophrosyne threatened by laughter is far more appealing than... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1884 - 590 Seiten
...myself, We shall never get far. ... I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked, . . . but she was too intent on establishing a good footing between...any art of winning. She studied my tastes, piqued and amused me, challenged frankness by frankness. . . . Of course, it was impossible long to hold out... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1884 - 592 Seiten
...myself, We shall never get far. ... I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked, . . . but she was too intent on establishing a good footing between...any art of winning. She studied my tastes, piqued and amused me, challenged frankness by frankness. ... Of course, it was impossible long to hold out... | |
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