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
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 580 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,...Uncer{'"tain, troubled, earnest wanderers through the midnight if the moral world beheld his intellectual fire as a beacon burning on a hill-top, and, climbing the... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 128 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... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 128 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... | |
| 1882 - 780 pages
...thought they fancied now. came to Emorson, as the flndor of a glittering gem hastens to a lapldnry to ascertain Its quality and value. Uncertain, troubled, earnest wanderers, through the midnight of tho moral world, beheld his intellectual flre as a beacon burning on a hilltop, and climbing the difficult... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1884 - 398 pages
...flocked to his door, far beyond the dozen persons good and wise whom he had mentioned to Carlyle. ' Uncertain, troubled, earnest wanderers through the...surrounding obscurity more hopefully than hitherto ' (Hawthorne). To the most intractable of Transcendental bores, worst species of the genus, he was... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...flocked to his door, far beyond tho dozen persons good and wise whom he had mentioned to Carlylo. ' Uncertain, troubled, earnest wanderers through the...surrounding obscurity more hopefully than hitherto ' (Hawthorne). To the most intractable of Transcendental bores, worst species of the genus, he was... | |
| Justin Almerin Smith - Church history - 1887 - 382 pages
...abode at the opposite end 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." To this group of Concord mystics, as we cannot help calling them, belonged Henry L. Thoreau. There... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 568 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,...Emerson, as the finder of a glittering gem hastens ta a lapidary, to ascertain its quality and value. Uncertain, troubled, earnest wanderers through the... | |
| Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 236 pages
...ask deliverance, but to invite his 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." Where Hawthorne saw fit dramatis persona for his " Twice Told Tales," Emerson discerned the... | |
| Choice literature - 1888 - 632 pages
...unrest America beheld, to quote the words of Hawthorne, " through the midnight of this moral world, his intellectual fire as a beacon burning on a hill-top,...into the surrounding obscurity more hopefully than before." — Quarterly Review. MR. RUSKIN AND HIS WORKS. IT is now rather more than thirty years since... | |
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