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English Traits And Representative Men
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

ENGLISH TRAITS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. CONTENTS. ENGLISH TRAITS. THAI, PAGE , KIUST VISIT TO ENGLAND l IK VOYAIIK TO IteuND , , 19 III, LAND . 27 IV RACK ... 36 V. ABILITY 60 VL MANNKKN 83. VII. TuiTit , , 94 VIII. InAUAHKU . 103 IX, ilKAYNK . 117 X. WKMTII , 125 XI, AinswuAcv 140 XU, UNIVKUSITIK. S , 161 Xill HKMCION . 17... more »3 XIV. LiTKUATUllE , . 187 XV, TUB TIMKS . , 210 XVI, M 1 ONKI KNGE 220 XVII, PwisuNAh 235 XVIII, UBHUI, T ..... 241 XIX SiKKCii AT MANUIIRSTKU . . ,249 VI CONTENTS. REPRESENTATIVE MEN. LECT. I. USES OF GREAT. MEN II. PLATO OR, THE PHILOSOPHER . PLATO NEW READINGS . III. SWEDENBORG J OR, THE MYSTIC . IV. MONTAIGNE OR, THE SCEPTIC . V. SHAKSPEARE OR, THE POET VI. NAPOLEON OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD VII. GOETHE OR. THE WRITER ENGLISH TRAITS THE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMEESON VOL. IV. ENGLISH TEAITS CHAPTER I. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND. I HAVE been twice in England, In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy, and France, I crossed from Boulogne, and landed in London the Tower stairs, It was a dark Sunday mor there were few people in the streets and I the pleasure of that first walk on English ound with my companion, an American artist, frofc Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand, to house in Eussell Square, whither we had been recom mended to good chambers, For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers criticism, as we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood. The sh signs spoke our language our country names were on the door-plates and the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front, Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh, and of the Edin burgh EevieWj to Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Hallam, and VOL, IV. B 2 ENGLISH TRAITS. CHAP. to Scott, Playfair, and De Quincey and my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, Coleridge, Words worth, Landor, De Quincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle , and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these persons. If Goethe had been still living, I might have wandered into Germany also. Besides those I have named for Scott was dead, there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington, whom I afterwards saw at Westminster Abbey, at the funeral of Wilberforce. The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world without reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought, and cannot apply themselves to yours. The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power, as they do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms. It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. I have, however, found writers superioah o their books, and I cling to my first belief, that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments, and give one the satisfaction of reality, the sense of having been met, and a larger horizon. On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, 1-J FIEST VISIT TO ENGLAND. 3 I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places. But I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities. At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio G-reenough, the American sculptor...

ISBN-13: 9781406702699
ISBN-10: 1406702692
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 484
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Publisher: Giniger Press
Book Type: Paperback
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