Essays, 第 1-2 卷Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 - 613 頁 Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's Essays, the first being Essays: First Series. This book contains: "The Poet" "Experience" "Character" "Manners" "Gifts" "Nature" "Politics" "Nominalist and Realist" "New England Reformers" |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 71 筆
第 18 頁
... of a cherub as painted over churches , -a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide- • stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere 18 HISTORY.
... of a cherub as painted over churches , -a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide- • stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere 18 HISTORY.
第 19 頁
... sides . of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . ' By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we ...
... sides . of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . ' By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we ...
第 24 頁
... side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce . The reverence exhibited is for personal qualities ; courage , ad- dress , self - command , justice , strength , swiftness , a loud ...
... side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce . The reverence exhibited is for personal qualities ; courage , ad- dress , self - command , justice , strength , swiftness , a loud ...
第 31 頁
... know the Pro- teus . What else am I who laughed or wept yes- terday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Pro- teus ? HISTORY 31.
... know the Pro- teus . What else am I who laughed or wept yes- terday , who slept last night like a corpse , and this morning stood and ran ? And what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Pro- teus ? HISTORY 31.
第 32 頁
... side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If he could solve the riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events ? In splendid ...
... side and put riddles to every passenger . If the man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If he could solve the riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events ? In splendid ...
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第 403 頁 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
第 407 頁 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
第 391 頁 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
第 45 頁 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
第 57 頁 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
第 57 頁 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then?
第 46 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
第 53 頁 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
第 67 頁 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.
第 341 頁 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.