Ralph Waldo Emerson: sa vie et son oeuvreA. Colin, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 83 - 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 59 - I DO not often speak to public questions ; — they are odious and hurtful, and it seems like meddling or leaving your work. I have my own spirits in prison ; — spirits in deeper prisons, whom no man visits if I do not.
Page 8 - The land was low but healthy ; and if, in common with all the settlements, they found the air of America very cold, they might say with Higginson, after his description of the other elements, that "New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest ; for all Europe...
Page 196 - Nous vous sommes reconnaissants, comme nous le sommes à l'histoire, aux pyramides et à leurs ouvriers; mais maintenant, notre jour est venu : nous sommes sortis de l'éternel silence, et à présent nous voulons vivre — vivre par nous-mêmes, non point comme les porteurs des cordons du poêle, mais comme les soutiens et les créateurs de notre âge; et ni la Grèce, ni Rome, ni les trois unités d'Aristote, ni les trois Rois de Cologne, ni le collège de la Sorbonne, ni la Revue d'Edimbourg ne...
Page 46 - I found Emerson with his head bowed on his hands, which were resting on his knees. He looked up and said, ' Now tell me, honestly, plainly, just what you think of that service.' I replied that before he was half through I had made up my mind that it was the last time he should have that pulpit. ' You are right,' he rejoined,
Page 8 - Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England. 'There is no people...
Page 394 - I would have my book read as I have read my favorite books, — not with explosion and astonishment, a marvel and a rocket, but a friendly and agreeable influence, stealing like the scent of a flower or the sight of a new landscape on a traveller. I neither wish to be hated and defied by such as I startle, nor to be kissed and hugged by the young whose thoughts I stimulate.
Page 73 - I find welldisposed, kindly people among these sinewy farmers of the North, but in all that is called cultivation they are only ten years old.
Page 81 - 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 149 - On pourrait dire que ce qui se rattache à l'espèce humaine , considérée en masse , est de l'ordre des faits physiques ; plus le nombre des individus est grand , plus la volonté individuelle...