 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
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 572 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.' Ar.T. ART. VII. — The Cruise of tlic Marchcsa to Kamschatka and New Guinea, witk Notices... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...unrest America beheld, to quote the wjrds of Hawthorne, "through the midnight of this moral world, his intellectual fire as a beacon burning on a hilltop,...into the surrounding obscurity more hopefully than before." From Temple Bar, THE FIVE HORSESHOES. A REMINISCENCE OF THE ROAD. " From the top of the Royal... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 336 pages
...and drew many men upon long pilgrimages to speak with him face to face. People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new,...to a lapidary to ascertain its quality and value." But of far more importance than these restless visitors was the permanent circle of friends and fellow-workers... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American fiction - 1894 - 202 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,...the moral world beheld his intellectual fire as a bear con burning on a hill-top, and, climbing the difficult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 702 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...People that had lighted upon a new thought — or thought they had fancied new — came to Emerson as a finder of a glittering gem hastens to a lapidary to...world beheld his intellectual fire as a beacon burning upon a hill-top, and climbing the diflicult ascent, looked forth into the surrounding obscurity more... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 582 pages
...own thralldom. People that had lighted upon a new thought—or thought that they fancied new—came to Emerson as the finder of a glittering gem hastens...world beheld his intellectual fire as a beacon burning upon a hill-top, and climbing the difficult ascent, looking forth into the surrounding obscurity more... | |
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