# bib

id: 19935
title: Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson
author: Morley, John
txt: ./txt/19935.txt
cache: ./cache/19935.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  like manner seems to have thought more of the great writers whom he saw But Emerson was struck by the originality of his life, and thought it sagacity and practicality; infinitely well affected to the man Emerson 1883): the work of a faithful disciple, who knew Emerson well, and has traits that every critic notes in Emerson''s writing, is that it is so Emerson or like Carlyle soon finds himself surrounded by a crowd of ''Men take truths of this nature,'' said Emerson, ''very A word or two must be said of Emerson''s verses. man--not even Goethe--has equalled Emerson in this trait.'' _The In 1842 Emerson told Carlyle, in vindication of the _Dial_ and its unimportant degree the mind of Emerson himself.[6] Literary criticism Emerson is for faith before works. regard to their own.'' So Emerson knew well enough that man''s say that Emerson looked at life too much from the outside, as the


id: 16931
title: Four American Leaders
author: Eliot, Charles William
txt: ./txt/16931.txt
cache: ./cache/16931.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  The nature of Franklin''s own education accounts for many of his opinions Washington as a man of homely virtues, giving our far-removed generation discipline of real life and the late age at which our educated young men world which gives most thought, time, and money to education, public Emerson taught that it is the office of art to educate the of the new tendencies in American education and social life, when he ultimate object of art in education is to teach men to see nature to be Emerson are fundamental; but the American institutions of education are to carry into practice Emerson''s wisdom of sixty years ago. In Emerson''s early days there was nothing in our schools and colleges In Emerson''s day, luxury in the present sense had hardly been developed and then must be rich." He foresaw the young man''s state of mind to-day The essence of Emerson''s teaching concerning man''s nature is compressed


id: 13583
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
author: Carlyle, Thomas
txt: ./txt/13583.txt
cache: ./cache/13583.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling. one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. wishes to that new fair Friend of ours, whom one day we shall good wishes, a copy of his little work, lately published, on our I write the day after your letter comes, I ought to say, however, that about New-year''s-day I will send about New-Year''s-Day, the preceding letter. Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called _French a good book, I know,) I shall sustain with great glee the new hope, got the letter sent nearly a month ago, giving account of letters: and you are a good and generous man to write so many. Dear Friend,--Some four days ago I wrote you a long Letter, letter you had said too much good of my poor little arid book,--


id: 3673
title: Essays Before a Sonata
author: Ives, Charles
txt: ./txt/3673.txt
cache: ./cache/3673.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts play in forming its the composer sets up as "moral goodness" may sound like "high of a higher life though a definite beauty in Nature"--or something that divine." Whatever means one would use to personalize Emerson''s natural living, to the greater truths of life gave force to his influence over prove the existence of God. Emerson seems to use the great definite interests of humanity to Like all courageous souls, the higher Emerson soars, the more lowly he strength and beauty of innate goodness in man, in Nature and in God, mean that through Nature''s influence man is brought to a deeper doctrine of "innate goodness" in human nature--a reflection of the like like to think suggests Thoreau''s submission to nature may, to another, it more and more possible for men to separate, in an art-work, moral up this idea, "The universal need for expression in art lies in man''s


id: 12700
title: Ralph Waldo Emerson
author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
txt: ./txt/12700.txt
cache: ./cache/12700.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "All men of gifted intellect and fine genius," says Charles Emerson, Mr. John Lowell Gardner, a college classmate and life-long friend of Mr. Emerson, has favored me with a letter which contains matters of a growing power of thought, it was natural that Emerson should turn from Emerson wrote "Nature," and in the same room, some years later, Emerson, "and if you do not like New England well enough to stay, one of Nature.--Other Addresses: Man the Reformer.--Lecture on the Times.--The Nature.--Other Addresses: Man the Reformer.--Lecture on the Times.--The of his Mode of Life in a Letter to Carlyle.--Death of Emerson''s of his Mode of Life in a Letter to Carlyle.--Death of Emerson''s These facts, Emerson says, have always suggested to man that the Emerson''s works, namely, "Nature, Addresses, and Lectures," and In writing of "Shakespeare; or, the Poet," Emerson naturally gives write of Emerson than this high-minded and brave-souled man, who did not (See _Emerson''s Books_,--Nature.)


id: 8777
title: Authors and Friends
author: Fields, Annie
txt: ./txt/8777.txt
cache: ./cache/8777.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Hawthorne, who said, in speaking of his own early life and the days at He amused his friends one day in later years by There is a brief record in 1879 of a visit to us in Manchester-by-theSea. Just before he left he said, "After I am gone to-day, I want you following entry in a diary of the time: "We have been waiting for Mr. Emerson to publish his new volume, containing his address upon Henry his time should be doing new things.'' ''Yes,'' said ----, ''I fear he said was "a great joy to the world, not alone to our little America." "But," he said one day many years later, "a country house, you Late in life he said to a friend who was speaking of the warm them, written on a Christmas day, speaking of an old friend: "How many said, "how I longed to speak these things which made life so sweet,


id: 8641
author: Stearns, Frank Preston
txt: ./txt/8641.txt
cache: ./cache/8641.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Yet Emerson was always good, and every man and woman who came to hear who like to play soldier in time of peace are not the best material to It is true that Thoreau imitated Emerson''s manner of speech a good he was in the right, and men like Emerson, Ripley, and James Freeman a great and good man has ever lived without suffering from it at one fretting because the clergyman did not cone in time, "Meanwhile, Mrs. D., there is providence." Of a good-humored young radical who wished to Louisa liked to look at other people dancing, and generally it made her bright little story-writer of those days and very much like her English considered the "Conduct of Life" to be Emerson''s best book, and there came to Concord to write poetry and live the life of an old bachelor, friends who knew that he liked Emerson, thought he had found too much

title:
  Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier


id: 13660
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
author: Carlyle, Thomas
txt: ./txt/13660.txt
cache: ./cache/13660.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson''s voice wholly delay.--Writing new book.--Delight in proposed bequest.--Advice have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft Dear Emerson,--There had been a long time without direct news world.--By the way, if that good Clark _like_ his business, let Dear Emerson,--Your two Letters* have both come to hand, the last little Boston Newspaper you send!* A small hatchet-faced, grayeyed, good-humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Dear Emerson,--We received your Letter* duly, some time ago, with Dear Emerson,--Your Letter came ten days ago; very kind, and at last returned all with this word, "If you write to Mr. Carlyle, you may say to him, that I _have_ read these books, Dear Emerson,--Three days ago I at last received your Letter;


id: 13088
title: Emerson and Other Essays
author: Chapman, John Jay
txt: ./txt/13088.txt
cache: ./cache/13088.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Let us remember the world upon which the young Emerson''s eyes opened. thoughts, and possibly the same thing holds good for society at large. individual." "A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great thought Emerson, his eye rolling in a fine frenzy of moral feeling, things, of which he does not know the meaning in real life, he yet uses, Emerson''s criticism on men and books is like the test of a great chemist Emerson himself was the only man of his times who consistently and In Whitman''s works the elemental parts of a man''s mind and the fragments and says no good can come to a man who, looking on such great beauty, The heart is not the life of love like mine. music, men and women, and his works are like the house of a rich man,--a speech, and new thoughts from life, and Stevenson used all his powers to


