 People that had lighted on a new thought or a thought that they fancied new came to Emerson, as the finder of a glittering gem hastens to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value.  Pen Pictures of Modern Authors - Page 91edited by - 1882 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 694 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new,...intellectual fire, as a beacon burning on a hill-top, and climhing the difficult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding obscurity, more hopefully than hitherto.... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 724 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new, came to Emerson, as the tinder of a glitlering gem hastens to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and Value. Uncertain, troubled,... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new,...beheld his intellectual fire, as a beacon burning on a hill top, and climbing the difficult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding obscurity more hopefully... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 472 pages
...a^k deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new, came to Hmorson, as tho finder of a glittering gem hastens to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value.... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new,...surrounding obscurity more hopefully than hitherto But it was impossible to dwell in his vicinity without inhaling, more or less, the mountain atmosphere... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - New England - 1857 - 300 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought or a thought that they fancied new came...beheld his "intellectual fire as a beacon burning on a hill top, and, climbing the difficult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding obscurity more hopefully... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 300 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought or a thought that they fancied new came...beheld his intellectual fire as a beacon burning on a hill top, and, climbing the difficult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding obscurity more hopefully... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 1036 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite the free spirit into their own thraldom. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new,...glittering gem hastens to a lapidary to ascertain its value. For myself, there had been epochs in my life when it, too, might have asked of this prophet... | |
 | Henry James - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 206 pages
...at the opposite extremity of our village. .... People that had lighted on a new thought or a thought they fancied new, came to Emerson, as the finder of...to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value." And Hawthorne enumerates some of the categories of pilgrims to the shrine of the mystic counsellor,... | |
 | Henry James - Authors, American - 1879 - 210 pages
...of our village. . . . People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought they fancied new, eame to Emerson, as the finder of a glittering gem hastens...to a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value;" and Hawthorne enumerates some of the categories of pilgrims to the shrine of the mystic counsellor,... | |
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