 I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson as a poet of deep beauty and austere tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher. It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our avenue,...  The American Whig Review - Page 303edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1846 - 222 pages
...master-word that should solve me the riddle of the universe. But now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...presence, like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 222 pages
...master-word that should solve me the riddle of the universe. But now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...presence, like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 472 pages
...m.istcr-word that should wlte me tho riddle of the universe. But now, being happy, I felt us if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson as a poet of deep beauty and austcro tenderness, but (ought nothing from him as a philosopher. It was good, nevertheless, to meet... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...into their own thraldom.' Yet he united with them in admiring the genius of the thinker. ' It was good to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our...his presence, like the garment of a shining one.' A recent American writer finds his country well represented in the Paris Exhibition, because its picture... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 1036 pages
...master-word that should solve me the riddle of the universe; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher." With a clearer perception, the result of a longer intimacy, the poet Channing has celebrated this part... | |
 | Henry James - Authors, American - 1879 - 210 pages
...feeling, therefore, " as if there were no question to be put," he was not in metaphysical communion. " It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the wood-paths,...presence, like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 406 pages
...upon other minds "with wonderful magnetism." " It was good, said his neighbor at the ' Old Manse," to meet him in- the wood-paths, or sometimes in our avenue, with that pure intellectual gleam diffusing about his presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he, so quiet, so simple, so without... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...meet him in the wood-paths, or sometimes in our avenue, with that pure intellectual gleam diffusing about his presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he, so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 290 pages
...word that should solve me the riddle of the universe ; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1882 - 582 pages
...word that should solve me the riddle of the universe ; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive... | |
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