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. MILTON.' The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise " Of the Christian Doctrine," in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name. For a short time the…

Never did sculptor’s dream unfold A form which marble doth not hold In its white block; yet it therein shall find Only the hand secure and bold Which still obeys the mind. MICHAEL ANGELO’s Sonnets Non ha l’ ottimo artista alcun concetto, Ch’un marmo solo in se non circoscriva Col suo soverchio, c solo a…

BOSTON. " We are citizens of two fair cities," said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, " and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine." "And I," replied the artist, " if I were not Florentine " – " You would wish to be Genoese," said the other. "…

Concord Walks

      The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land. It is nor less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors. The land, the care of…

Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)

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 the parts and laws of the human body, or Michael Faraday’s explanation of magnetic powers,…