Chapter IV Eloquence
For whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words, like a storm-wind, can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable; And though he speak in midnight dark, – In…
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Chapter III Art
I FRAMED his tongue to music, I armed his hand with skill, I moulded his face to beauty And his heart the throne of Will. ART ALL departments of life at the present day – Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or…
Chapter II Civilization
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts. We praise the guide, we praise the forest life: But will we sacrifice our…
The Natural History of Intellect
NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.Ralph Waldo Emerson I. Powers and Laws of Thought I have used such opportunity as I have had, and lately in London and Paris, to attend scientific lectures; and in listening to Richard Owen’s masterly enumeration of…
I The Lord’s Supper
The Lord’s Supper The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. — ROMANS XIV. 17. In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy…
Demonology
THE name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry, and deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are…
Poems
Title: Poems Uniform Title: Works. 1903. v. 9 Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company City: Boston Date: 1904 Note: An electronic copy of the title page and verso are available online. Call number:828 .E536 1903a v.9…
I Fate
I: FATE Delicate omens traced in air To the lone bard true witness bare; Birds with auguries on their wings Chanted undeceiving things Him to beckon, him to warn; Well might then the poet scorn To learn of scribe or…
Chapter I First Visit to England
New8 Chapter I First Visit to England I have been twice in England. In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy, and France, I crossed from Boulogne, and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It…
Uses of Great Men
IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and…