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Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
Emerson undoubtedly met with some of them among his disciples. [6]
Emerson never grappled with any considerable metrical difficulties. [6]
Emerson was a very regular attendant at the meetings of the Saturday Club, and continued to dine at its table, until within a year or two of his death. [6]
Emerson inherited the traditions of the Boston pulpit, such as they were, damaged, in the view of the prevailing sects of the country, perhaps by too long contact with the "Sons of Liberty," and their revolutionary notions. [6]
Emerson saw fit to imitate the Egyptians by placing "The Sphinx" at the entrance of his temple of song. [6]
Emerson shows up the weakness of his young enthusiasts with that delicate wit which warns its objects rather than wounds them. [6]
Emerson follows out the train of influences which added themselves to the impulse given by Mr. Everett. [6]
Emerson looked at the rose admiringly, and then as if by a sudden impulse lifted his hat gently, and said with a low bow, 'I take off my hat to it. [6]
Emerson accounts for the personal regard which he has for Montaigne by the story of his first acquaintance with him. [6]

Sentences ending with emerson

The hatred of unreality was uppermost with Carlyle; the love of what is real and genuine with Emerson. [6]
These thoughts suggest themselves in looking back at the striking record of the family made historic by the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [6]
They who repeat the saying that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country," will find an exception to its truth in the case of Emerson. [6]
What man could speak more fitly, with more authority of "Character," than Emerson? [6]
Without a certain sensibility to the humorous, no one should venture upon Emerson. [6]
I found a portrait in the National Gallery which was a good specimen of it; the bust of a near friend of his, more intimate with him than almost any other person, is often taken for that of Emerson. [6]
Many of the old contributors to "The Dial" wrote for the new magazine, among them Emerson. [6]
Mr. Ireland's account of Emerson's visits and the interviews between him and many distinguished persons is full of interest, but the interest largely relates to the persons visited by Emerson. [6]
If ever a man communicated those _vibrations_ he speaks of as characteristic of Milton, it was Emerson. [6]
Sidney heard it in the ballad of 'Chevy Chase,' and we in Emerson. [6]

Short sentences using emerson

Emerson spoke of the Mormons. [6]
Emerson received the second prize. [6]
Emerson was unheard of. [6]
Emerson swears by no master. [6]
Emerson, Edward, of Newbury, 8. [6]
Emerson, Thomas, of Ipswich, 38. [6]
Authors, quoted by Emerson, 381-383. [6]
Hunt, Leigh, meeting Emerson, 195. [6]
She admired Emerson and Tennyson. [4]
Litanies, in Emerson, 314. [6]

Sentences containing emerson two or more times

Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
Edward Emerson, son of the first and father of the second Reverend Joseph Emerson, though not a minister, was the next thing to being one, for on his gravestone he is thus recorded: "Mr. Edward Emerson, sometime Deacon of the first church in Newbury. [6]
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson went to reside in the house in which he passed the rest of his life, and in which Mrs. Emerson and their daughter still reside. [6]
The Reverend William Emerson, the second of that name and profession, and the father of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was born in the year 1769, and graduated at Harvard College in 1789. [6]
The interest which attaches itself to the immediate parentage of a man like Emerson leads us to inquire particularly about the characteristics of the Reverend William Emerson so far as we can learn them from his own writings and from the record of his contemporaries. [6]

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Is Mr. Flint your example of the fittest type to exist and survive, or Gladstone or Wilberforce or Emerson or Lincoln? [9]
Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
As at first written it had one verse in it which sounded so much like a nursery rhyme that Emerson was prevailed upon to omit it in the later versions. [6]
The poetry of Wordsworth may have suggested the prose of Emerson, but the prose loses nothing by the comparison. [6]
I cannot help wondering what brought Emerson and the showy, fascinating John Gourdin together as room-mates. [6]
The fair prospects with which Emerson began his life as a settled minister were too soon darkened. [6]
Ticknor, George: on William Emerson, 12; on Kirkland, 27; literary rank, 33. [6]
The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
Edward Bliss Emerson, who graduated at Harvard College in 1824, three years after Ralph Waldo, held the first place in his class. [6]
There are stories which show that Emerson had a retentive memory in the earlier part of his life. [6]
At the period when Emerson reached manhood, Unitarianism was the dominating form of belief in the more highly educated classes of both of the two great New England centres, the town of Boston and the University at Cambridge. [6]
In spite of what he said about himself in his letter to Carlyle, Emerson was not only a poet, but a very remarkable one. [6]
Thayer, James B.: Western Journey with Emerson, 249, 263, 265-271, 359; _ground swell_, 364. [6]
Carlyle did not weep, but he scolded; Emerson did not laugh, but in his gravest moments there was a smile waiting for the cloud to pass from his forehead. [6]
And thus it was, that with the most friendly feelings on both sides, Mr. Emerson left the pulpit of the Second Church and found himself obliged to make a beginning in a new career. [6]
In 1852 there was published a Memoir of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, in which Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing each took a part. [6]
If the complaint was legitimate in Scaliger's time, it was better founded half a century ago when Mr. Emerson found cause for it. [6]
But Charles Emerson was idolized in his own time by many in college and out of college. [6]
Ralph Waldo Emerson was eight years old at that time. [6]
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 25th of May, 1803. [6]
Andrew, John Albion: War Governor, 223; hearing Emerson, 379. [6]
It is not unlikely that Mr. Emerson was more or less exercised with the same questionings. [6]
There is one trick of verse which Emerson occasionally, not very often, indulges in. [6]
Among the floral tributes was one from the teachers and scholars in the Emerson school. [6]
I must refer to this volume for a bibliography of the various works and Essays of which Emerson furnished the subject. [6]
It is interesting to observe that Montaigne, Franklin, and Emerson all show the same fondness for Plutarch. [6]
I was surprised to find by one of the old Catalogues that Emerson roomed during a part of his College course with a young man whom I well remember, J.G.K. [6]
Taylor, Father, relation to Emerson, 55, 56, 413. [6]
It is hard to conceive of Emerson in either of the other so-called learned professions. [6]
It is hard to conceive of Emerson as "an expert swordsman" like Milton. [6]
In his letter to Carlyle, of November 12th of the same year, Emerson says: "Your letter, which I received last week, made a bright light in a solitary and saddened place. [6]
The simple suggestion to a few friends of Mr. Emerson that an opportunity was now offered to be of service to him was all that was needed. [6]
Then they wished they had some more company--and Mr. Emerson pointed to me and says: "'Is yonder squalid peasant all That this proud nursery could breed? [5]
A glance at the table of contents will give an idea of the objects which Emerson proposed to himself in his tour, and which take up the principal portion of his record. [6]
The rest, except the sketch of Miss Mary Emerson, I got ready for his use in readings to his friends, or to a limited public. [6]
In one of the rooms of this house Emerson wrote "Nature," and in the same room, some years later, Hawthorne wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse. [6]
Emerson has had the name of being a leader in many movements in which he had very limited confidence, this among others to which the idealizing impulse derived from him lent its force, but for the organization of which he was in no sense responsible. [6]
If Emerson was the moving spirit, he was the right arm in the conflict, which in one form or another has been waged up to the present day. [6]
Both are on the most intimate terms with Nature, but Emerson contemplates himself as belonging to her, while Wordsworth feels as if she belonged to him. [6]
The demands of the lecture-room account for many peculiarities which are characteristic of Emerson as an author. [6]
It is with the kings of thought that Emerson most associates. [6]
In April of the former year, he went to live with Mr. Emerson, but had been on intimate terms with him previously to that time. [6]
Emerson, 21; on the Dutch, 217; verse, 338. [6]
I am glad that Mr. Emerson, who is feeble and ill, can learn what a debt of obligation his friends feel to him, and thank you heartily for what you have done about it. [6]
Mr. Emerson says that his narrow and desultory reading had inspired him with the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, Carlyle. [6]
Emerson never forgot that he was dealing with human beings. [6]
If we allow that Emerson is not a born singer, that he is a careless versifier and rhymer, we must still recognize that there is something in his verse which belongs, indissolubly, sacredly, to his thought. [6]
A coarser satirist than Emerson indulged his fancy in "Meditations on a Broomstick," which My Lady Berkeley heard seriously and to edification. [6]
Sir J. Emerson Tennent, 'Ceylon,' 1859, vol. [1]
Chelmsford, Mass., Emerson teaching there, 49, 50. [6]
Emerson had only tangential relations with the experiment, and tells its story in his "Historic Notes" very kindly and respectfully, but with that sense of the ridiculous in the aspect of some of its conditions which belongs to the sagacious common-sense side of his nature. [6]
Instead of a successor to Irving and Emerson, William Wetherell became a successor to Jonah Winch. [9]
Oriental: genius, 120; spirit in Emerson, 179. [6]
Emerson, Edward Waldo, son of Ralph Waldo: in New York, 246; on the Farming essay, 255; father's last days, 346-349; reminiscences, 359. [6]
All this with slight changes and omissions is from the letter of Dr. Emerson in answer to my questions. [6]
Never did Emerson show the perfect sanity which characterized his practical judgment more beautifully than in this Lecture and in his whole course with reference to the intellectual agitation of the period. [6]
Yes, Victoria believed she had developed in him a taste for reading; although he would have listened to Emerson from her lips. [9]
The balance was sent to Mr. Emerson October 7, and acknowledged by him in his letter of October 8, 1872. [6]
Emerson and I sent in our essays with the rest and were fortunate enough to take the two prizes; but--Alas for the infallibility of academic decisions! [6]
Emerson, Joseph, the second, minister of Malden, 8. [6]
Emerson awakened us, saved us from the body of this death. [6]
Emerson was eminently sane for an idealist. [6]
But Emerson has said truly "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. [6]
Without using the Rosetta-stone of Swedenborg, Emerson finds in every phenomenon of nature a hieroglyphic. [6]
Emerson was not rich in some of those natural gifts which are considered the birthright of the New Englander. [6]
His son, the Reverend Joseph Emerson, minister of the town of Mendon, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Edward Bulkeley, who succeeded his father, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, as Minister of Concord, Massachusetts. [6]
I do not reverence Mr. Emerson less, but somehow I could approach him easier. [5]
Of Emerson, I regret to say, there are few notices in my journals. [6]
In 1874 Emerson received the nomination by the independent party among the students of Glasgow University for the office of Lord Rector. [6]
But no other reason was needed than that Montaigne was just what Emerson describes him as being. [6]
Thoreau had many rare and admirable qualities, and Thoreau pictured by Emerson is a more living personage than White of Selborne would have been on the canvas of Sir Joshua Reynolds. [6]
The father of Ralph Waldo Emerson may be judged of in good measure by the associates with whom he was thus connected. [6]
One of his pupils in that school, the Honorable Josiah Gardiner Abbott, has favored me with the following account of his recollections:-- The school of which Mr. Emerson had the charge was an old-fashioned country "Academy. [6]
Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50. [6]
Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival.--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
In the first place, Emerson explains that the "_new views_," as they are called, are the oldest of thoughts cast in a new mould. [6]
Such was the place which the advent of Emerson made the Delphi of New England and the resort of many pilgrims from far-off regions. [6]
Perhaps to this philosophical institution the judgment of our philosopher Emerson will commend itself as a just estimate of Lincoln's historical place. [7]
Speaking of his personal character, as revealed through his writings, he says: "In this respect, I take leave to think that Emerson is the most mark-worthy, the loftiest, and most heroic mere man that ever appeared. [6]
Emerson was not particularly distinguished in College. [6]
But Emerson, incubating over deeper matters than were dreamt of in the established philosophy of elegant letters, seems to have given no sign of the power that was fashioning itself for leadership in a new time. [6]
Emerson has one or two of them here and there, but they never swarm on his leaves so as to frighten us away from their neighborhood. [6]
Of course no one can hold Emerson responsible for the "Yoga" doctrine of Brahmanism, which he has amused himself with putting in verse. [6]
Furness, William Henry: on the Emerson family, 14; Emerson's funeral, 350, 353. [6]
Emerson delivered discourses on Sundays and week-days in the Music Hall to Mr. Parker's society after his death. [6]
Without the help of tools or workmen, Emerson makes "Cheshire's haughty hill" stand before us an impersonation of kingly humanity, and talk with us as a god from Olympus might have talked. [6]
A brief sketch of these friends and fellow-workers of his may not be out of place, for these men made the local sphere of thought into which Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. [6]
The next edition of the Record was an example of what Mr. Emerson meant. [9]
After the death of the first William Emerson, the Concord minister, his widow, Mr. Emerson's grandmother, married, as has been mentioned, his successor, Dr. Ezra Ripley. [6]
I have spoken of the exalted strain into which Mr. Emerson sometimes rises in the midst of his general serenity. [6]
From the resources of the American Scholar Mr. Emerson passes to his tasks. [6]
On the 12th of September, 1835, Emerson delivered an "Historical Discourse, at Concord, on the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town. [6]
Emerson, Ellen, daughter of Ralph Waldo: residence, 83; trip to Europe, 271; care of her father, 294; correspondence, 347. [6]
Emerson, William, father of Ralph Waldo: minister, in Harvard and Boston, 10-14; editorship, 26, 32, 33; the parsonage, 37, 42; death, 43. [6]
Emerson, William, grandfather of Ralph Waldo: minister of Concord, 8-10, 14; building the Manse, 70; patriotism, 72. [6]
Emerson, William, brother of Ralph Waldo, 37, 39, 49, 53. [6]

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