Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sa Vie Et Son OeuvreA. Colin, 1907 - 418 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
Addresses and Lec Addresses and Lectures âme beauté besoin Biographical Sketches Boston Bronson Alcott caractère Character choses Christ Christianisme Class in Divinity cœur Conduct of Life conscience d'Emerson Dieu dire divin Divinity College doit Domestic Life esprit Essays First Series force formes gens Henry James History of Intellect hommes humaine idéal idées Idem intellectuelle intuitive jamais Jésus joie l'âme l'amour l'artiste l'esprit l'homme l'humanité l'idéal l'individu l'inspiration l'univers laisser Lectures and Biographical Letters and Social lettres lois lui-même Margaret Fuller Memoir of Ralph ment Miscellanies monde morale Natural History nature New England Nouvelle-Angleterre œuvre Oliver Wendell Holmes Papers passer pensée penseur personnelle philosophie poésie poète qu'Emerson qu'un question raison Ralph Waldo Emerson réalité regard religieux religion Representative reste rêve rien scholar Second Series Self-Reliance semble Senior Class sentiment seul Social Aims société Society and Solitude spirituelle supérieure Swedenborg théorie tion Transcendentaux tures vérité vrai Walt Whitman
Fréquemment cités
Page 85 - How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set ; Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had descended, Had not these me against myself defended.
Page 5 - Lastly, (and which was not least,) a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Page 352 - ELIOT. George Eliot's Life, Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her husband, JW CROSS.
Page 34 - I shall never forget the visitor," at a later date, too, Mrs. Carlyle wrote, "who years ago, in the desert, descended on us out of the clouds, as it were, and made one day there look like enchantment for us, and left me weeping that it was only one day.
Page 6 - As the season grew later, they felt its inconveniences. " Many were forced to go barefoot and bareleg, and some in time of frost and snow, yet were they more healthy than now they are.
Page 379 - II n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie, voire tel qu'il serait très grand dommage et très injuste de punir et de perdre.
Page 92 - Besides am I not, o best Lidian, a most foolish affectionate goodman & papa, with a weak side towards apples & sugar &C all domesticities, when I am once in Concord? Answer me that. Well, I will come again shortly and behave the best I can. Only I foresee plainly that the trick of solitariness never never can leave me.
Page 198 - ... silence; maintenant nous voulons vivre, vivre pour nous-mêmes, non pour tenir les cordons d'un catafalque, mais pour fonder et créer notre siècle; la Grèce, ni Rome, ni les trois unités d'Aristote, ni les trois rois de Cologne, ni le collège de la Sorbonne, ni l'Edinburgh Review, ne nous commanderont plus.
Page 83 - I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken. He has not worshipped the highest unity ; he is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer, and more touches the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men. His is not even the devotion to pure truth; but to truth for the sake of culture.
Page 244 - Il ne sait pas observer le solstice; il connaît aussi peu l'équinoxe, et le brillant calendrier de l'année n'a pas de cadran dans son esprit. Ses livres de notes...