The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive. THE WORKS - Page 380by RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883Full view - About this book
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cores lor. ' The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these vrords, and they would bleed ; they ore vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we... | |
| Michel de Montaigne - French literature - 1862 - 594 pages
...sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems Ic-ss written. It is the language of conversation transferred...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . There have been men with deeper insight; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that веете less written. It is the language of conversation transferred...words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and olive. One has the some pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about... | |
| 1874 - 608 pages
...— we have not to seek it. It is the word of Ufe. Emerson has said of the sentences of Montaigne : ' Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive.' Similar language applied to the Bible would have little of figure. We are workers in words that carry... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...the language of conversation transferred to a book. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography - 1883 - 286 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography - 1883 - 658 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick ; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets. He reaches prudent, taking in sail, counting stock, husbanding his means, believing that toa book. Cut these words and they would has seen too much of gentlemen of the long : bleed ; they... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature - 1884 - 488 pages
...genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. " The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that...and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. — " Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive... | |
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