 It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book,...  Literature and Its Professors - Página 158por Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull pray,"... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thoughts and experience."* No wonder, for Emerson is a genius, and does not pray. " The dull pray,"... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Augustc... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 páginas
...remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if 1 hud myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1838, that in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 páginas
...translation in his father's library, he read it with delight and wonder : " It seemed," says ho, " as if I had myself written the book in some former...sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience." This from a boy, fresh in thought and imagination, upon whom mere cold scepticism would have come as a new... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1867 - 316 páginas
...only to be known by them ? The literary worth of an author is, I think, to be estimated more by the extent than by the weight of his influence. There...Malebranche is an " esprit fort of the seventeenth century j the Montaigne of Bayle " is a gentlemanly sceptic ; the Montaigne of the Voltaireans is a " scoffer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former...so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste... | |
 | 1874 - 712 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me an if I had myself written the book in some former life,...sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. This avowal is precious. Emerson himself has taken Montaigne as the type of the skeptic in his " Representative... | |
 | 1875 - 402 páginas
...the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book in some former...sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience. This avowal is precious. Emerson himself has taken Montaigne as the type of the sceptic in his " Representative... | |
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