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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 9 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 59917 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Emerson 7 man 7 New 7 England 6 life 6 Mr. 6 God 6 Boston 5 good 5 Concord 5 Carlyle 4 american 4 English 3 like 3 great 3 friend 3 Mrs. 3 John 3 Hawthorne 3 Dial 2 year 2 work 2 time 2 letter 2 day 2 York 2 Wife 2 Whittier 2 Thaxter 2 Sterling 2 Shakespeare 2 Plato 2 Miss 2 London 2 July 2 Dr. 2 Charles 2 Book 2 April 2 America 1 true 1 thing 1 soul 1 nature 1 music 1 mind 1 lecture 1 find 1 dear 1 art Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 6882 i 6288 he 6265 it 3122 you 2165 him 2110 we 1975 me 1619 they 1199 them 878 she 849 us 566 himself 430 her 279 itself 236 myself 188 one 171 themselves 143 yours 91 yourself 67 herself 58 ourselves 48 mine 45 thee 25 his 24 ours 18 theirs 8 thyself 6 hers 2 ye 2 oneself 2 it:-- 1 wine,"--you 1 webster.--alcott.--thoreau 1 wear:-- 1 utterance:-- 1 us:-- 1 thrones,--they 1 that.--you 1 plagiarism.--but 1 outgo 1 oration.--sterling.--dwight 1 me--(what 1 life,--are 1 it:--for 1 ii 1 if''t 1 hope.--write 1 home,-- 1 hitherto 1 him,-- Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 20268 be 6986 have 2199 do 1749 say 1344 see 1196 make 1161 come 1153 write 1021 know 935 go 931 find 849 give 779 think 642 take 638 read 602 seem 518 send 517 get 515 speak 485 call 448 hear 447 tell 427 look 391 live 388 feel 376 leave 374 become 328 let 327 bring 301 believe 283 follow 277 show 252 like 245 love 243 stand 239 print 239 begin 235 receive 230 keep 226 remember 226 bear 225 wish 214 use 211 ask 208 hope 207 grow 205 appear 203 publish 200 hold 198 put Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 519 most 32 well 21 least 6 goethe 1 worst 1 soon 1 somewhither 1 shortest 1 purest 1 oftenest 1 near 1 hard 1 gracefulest 1 finest 1 fairest 1 easiest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 emerson was not 9 _ is _ 8 emerson did not 5 _ have _ 5 _ see _ 5 emerson is not 5 nothing is more 4 _ are _ 4 life is not 4 man is not 4 men do not 4 one does not 4 one knows not 4 people do not 3 _ be _ 3 _ do not 3 _ does not 3 _ has _ 3 _ read _ 3 _ speak _ 3 _ speaking _ 3 _ write _ 3 book becomes noxious 3 emerson does not 3 emerson was always 3 house is now 3 life were so 3 men are not 3 men have ever 3 one is more 3 world has ever 2 * see _ 2 _ believed _ 2 _ came safely 2 _ done _ 2 _ got _ 2 _ have not 2 _ is never 2 _ is not 2 _ know _ 2 _ tell _ 2 _ was _ 2 _ writing _ 2 book is perfect 2 books were not 2 emerson came in 2 emerson had never 2 emerson is as 2 emerson knew well 2 emerson was more Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 life is not so 1 _ do not _ 1 _ have not yet 1 _ is not anarchy 1 _ is not yet 1 book has no worthless 1 book is not quite 1 book makes no noise 1 books are no palimpsest 1 books have no melody 1 books were not handsomely 1 day have not yet 1 days were not so 1 emerson are not wholly 1 emerson had no literary 1 emerson has no vital 1 emerson is no cosmopolitan 1 emerson is no systematic 1 emerson is not free 1 emerson is not satisfied 1 emerson knew not tears 1 emerson made no contribution 1 emerson took no part 1 emerson was no lover 1 emerson was not only 1 emerson was not particularly 1 emerson was not pleased 1 emerson was not rich 1 emerson was not talkative 1 england is not dead 1 house is not large 1 letter had not yet 1 letter is not here 1 life has no terrors 1 life is not rich 1 life is not wholly 1 life was not limited 1 life were not pleasant 1 man be not frugal 1 man does not so 1 man has no right 1 man has no separate 1 man is not always 1 men are not always 1 men are not natally 1 nature is no sentimentalist,--does 1 nature is not enthusiastic 1 nature is not ultimate 1 natures are not strongly 1 one does not yet A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 13583 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I date = keywords = America; April; Book; Boston; Brown; Carlyle; Concord; Emerson; England; English; Fraser; French; God; Goethe; Heaven; John; July; London; Martineau; Miscellanies; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Revolution; Sartor; Sterling; Wife; York; dear; friend; good; letter; man 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 = 13660 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. date = keywords = America; April; August; Book; Boston; Carlyle; Chapman; Chelsea; Clark; Concord; Cromwell; Dear; Dial; Emerson; England; English; Fuller; January; July; June; London; March; Margaret; Miss; Mr.; New; R.W.; September; Sterling; Wife; York; friend; good; letter 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 author = Chapman, John Jay title = Emerson and Other Essays date = keywords = Angelo; Browning; Emerson; England; English; God; Juliet; Michael; New; Romeo; Shakespeare; Stevenson; Webster; Whitman; american; great; life; like; man; mind; thing; work 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 id = 16931 author = Eliot, Charles William title = Four American Leaders date = keywords = Boston; Channing; Emerson; Franklin; God; Washington; american; day; life; man; year 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 = 8777 author = Fields, Annie title = Authors and Friends date = keywords = Boston; Cambridge; Charles; Dr.; Emerson; England; Fields; God; Hawthorne; Holmes; Longfellow; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Stowe; Tennyson; Thaxter; Whittier; day; find; friend; good; life; like; time; year 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 = 12700 author = Holmes, Oliver Wendell title = Ralph Waldo Emerson date = keywords = AET; American; Boston; CHAPTER; Carlyle; Charles; Church; Club; College; Concord; Dial; Dr.; Edward; Emerson; England; English; Essay; George; God; Harvard; James; John; Massachusetts; Milton; Mr.; Nature; New; Plato; Ralph; Religion; Reverend; Shakespeare; Society; Waldo; William; address; lecture; life; man 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 = 3673 author = Ives, Charles title = Essays Before a Sonata date = keywords = Beethoven; Concord; Emerson; God; Hawthorne; Mr.; Thoreau; american; art; great; life; man; music; nature; soul; true 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 = 19935 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson date = keywords = Carlyle; Dial; Emerson; England; New; Plato; Wordsworth; good; great; life; man; work 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 = 8641 author = Stearns, Frank Preston 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 date = keywords = Alcott; Arnold; Boston; Carlyle; Concord; Emerson; England; Hawthorne; John; Lowell; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Phillips; Sanborn; Thaxter; Wasson; Wendell; Whittier; american; good; like; man; time 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