A Western Journey with Mr. EmersonLittle, Brown, 1884 - 141 páginas An account of a visit to California by railway from Boston in 1871. |
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Página 23 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Página 76 - Dome,' which is one that seems to suggest itself, at the first sight of this truly marvellous crest of rock. From the upper part of the valley, and from all the heights about it, the Half Dome presents itself as an object of the most imposing grandeur.
Página 62 - When he first rose, he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and then studied till twelve ; then took some exercise for an hour ; then dined, then played on the organ, and...
Página 68 - The crop was very fine, and the field, extending to about two miles in length, and from half a mile to a mile in width...
Página 73 - July, — the quantity is still sufficient to produce a fine effect ; still later, it shrinks down to a very much smaller volume. We estimated the size of the stream at the summit of the fall, at a medium stage of water, to be twenty feet in width and two feet in average depth.
Página 79 - She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.
Página 49 - All left the church feeling that an elegant tribute had been paid to the creative genius of the Great First Cause, and that a masterly use of the English language had contributed to that end.'" The story used to be told that after the Reverend Horace Holley had delivered a prayer on some public occasion, Major Ben. Russell, of ruddy face and ruffled shirt memory, editor of "The Columbian Centinel...
Página 115 - ... remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature; it bears the name of Goethe.
Página 96 - said one of the younger members of the party to me that day, 'be so agreeable, all the time, without getting tired! ' It was the naive expression of what we all had felt. There was never a more agreeable travelling companion; he was always accessible, cheerful, sympathetic, considerate, tolerant; and there was always that same respectful interest in those with whom he talked, even the humblest, which raised them in their own estimation.
Página 95 - At breakfast we had, among other things, pie. This article at breakfast was one of Mr. Emerson's weaknesses. A pie stood before him now. He offered to help somebody from it. who declined ; and then one or two others, who also declined ; and then Mi'.