Concord Walks
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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 courier Hints writ in vaster character; And on his mind, at dawn of day, Soft…
Chapter XIX Speech at Manchester
A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be present, and to address the company. In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks, I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the…
Plutarch
PLUTARCH. The soul Shall have society of its own rank : Be great. be true, and all the Seipios, The Catos. the wise patriots of Rome, Shall Hoek to you and tarry by your side And comfort you with their high company, PLUTARCH IT is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch, not…
Glossary for Emerson’s Nature
Aeolian Harp{ee-oh'-lee-uhn}The aeolian harp is a shallow box zither about 1-1.5 m (3-5 ft) long, strung with multiple strings of the same length but of different thicknesses and tuned in unison. The harp is suspended where the wind will set the strings in motion; the wind force and the different diameters of the strings cause…
V War
Delivered in March, 1838 in Boston, MA by Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy, to indicate the steps of human progress, to watch the rising of a thought in one man’s mind, the communication of it to a few, to a small minority, its expansion and general reception,…
VIII Nominalist and Realist
In countless upward-striving waves The moon-drawn tide-wave strives; In thousand far-transplanted grafts The parent fruit survives; So, in the new-born millions, The perfect Adam lives. Not less are summer-mornings dear To every child they wake, And each with novel life his sphere Fills for his proper sake. ESSAY VIII Nominalist and Realist I cannot often…