 | 1909 - 934 páginas
...him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain, he had not one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended or cheated or chagrined. The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, he had not learned. Not one... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1893 - 644 páginas
...Wiley & Sons. 1893. Emerson complains of a preacher he once heard, who "had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined." Considering that the Concord Sage is himself rather non-committal respecting these interesting questions... | |
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A snowstorm was falling around us. The snow-storm was real ; the preacher merely spectral ; and the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at him, and then out of the window behind him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain. He had... 
