item: #1 of 9 id: 12700 author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell title: Ralph Waldo Emerson date: None words: 103806 flesch: 68 summary: The great-grandfathers of Mr. Emerson at the sixth remove were thirty-two in number, unless the list was shortened by intermarriage of relatives. Dr. Charles Lowell, another brother minister, says of him, Mr. Emerson was a handsome man, rather tall, with a fair complexion, his cheeks slightly tinted, his motions easy, graceful, and gentlemanlike, his manners bland and pleasant. keywords: absolute; academic; accepted; account; action; active; address; addresses; admiration; aet; affairs; age; agreeable; aid; aims; alcott; alexander; allusion; american; angelo; answer; anthology; april; arnold; article; arts; association; atlantic; atmosphere; attention; audience; august; authority; baron; bear; beautiful; beauty; bee; beginning; belief; best; beta; bible; biography; bliss; blood; body; bold; book; bore; boston; boy; boys; brief; brings; british; broad; brother; brown; bulkeley; burns; cabot; calm; cambridge; care; carlyle; cause; century; certain; change; channing; chapter; character; characteristics; charles; charles emerson; charm; chauncy emerson; chief; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; circles; cities; city; 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It is noticeable, too, that the early and imitative work of great men generally belongs to a particular school to which their maturity bears a logical relation. keywords: abolitionists; account; action; activity; address; air; american; angelo; apt; art; artist; arts; asceticism; atmosphere; attempt; attention; attitude; audience; bad; basis; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belief; best; better; blood; body; books; boston; boy; browning; business; case; catch; century; certain; change; character; chief; child; church; civilization; class; close; common; complete; conditions; conduct; conscience; consciousness; conservatism; contact; content; country; courage; course; creature; creed; criticism; cry; culture; dante; day; days; death; deep; description; development; different; divine; doctrine; doubt; dream; earlier; early; earth; edition; education; effect; element; emerson; emotions; end; england; english; enthusiasm; essays; europe; excitement; existence; experience; expression; external; 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whitman; wit; women; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; writer; writing; wrong; years; young; youth cache: 13088.txt plain text: 13088.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 13583 author: Carlyle, Thomas title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I date: None words: 89488 flesch: 79 summary: The man withal is a _Catholic,_ eats fish on Friday;--a great lion here when he visits us; one of the _naivest_ men in the world: concerning whom nevertheless, among fashionables, there is a controversy, Whether he is an Angel, or partially a Windbag and _Humbug?_ I know not that you will find it to strike direct upon the secret of _Emerson,_ to hit the nail on the head, anywhere at all; I rather think not. keywords: --r.w; 1st; able; account; acknowledgment; address; adieu; affectionate; american; answer; april; article; ashamed; atlantic; audience; august; author; autumn; bad; bargain; beautiful; beginning; benefit; best; bill; black; blessed; blessing; blue; body; book; 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a _last_ desperate spasmodic effort of building,--a new top-story to the house, out of which is to be made one spacious room (so they call it, though it is under twenty feet square) where there shall be air _ad libitum,_ light from the sky, and no _sound,_ not even that of the Cremorne Cannons, shall find access to me any more! keywords: --t; abstruse; account; acknowledgment; adam; address; adieu; adventure; affairs; affectionate; age; air; alcott; alive; america; answer; anthony; appearance; april; arrival; arrive; article; articulate; august; author; autumn; bacon; bad; bargain; beautiful; beginning; behalf; believe; benefit; best; big; bill; bit; black; blessing; blockheads; book; booksellers; boston; brave; brief; british; broken; brother; brown; browning; business; busy; care; carlyle; carlyle concord; case; catalogue; cents; century; certain; chance; channing; chaos; chapman; chapter; character; charge; cheap; chelsea; chief; children; city; clark; class; clear; climate; close; 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Our expectation of good service and hard work from boys of sixteen, not to speak of young men of twenty-six, is very low. keywords: address; advantage; age; american; art; arts; beauty; better; birth; books; boston; boy; business; century; channing; character; child; church; city; civil; cold; college; common; contrast; country; culture; day; days; different; doctrine; duty; early; education; emerson; english; essential; experience; experiments; fact; faith; fighting; fine; following; force; franklin; freedom; french; fundamental; general; generations; genius; god; good; great; harvard; high; history; home; house; human; individual; influence; institutions; intellectual; interesting; labor; large; later; leaders; liberty; life; little; london; long; love; man; mankind; manners; manual; means; men; method; mind; modern; money; moral; motive; natural; nature; new; office; old; open; opinion; people; personal; philadelphia; philosophy; place; plain; political; poor; power; practical; practice; present; president; press; principles; printer; printing; progress; prophetic; prophets; public; quality; reading; recent; reform; regard; religion; religious; remarkable; republic; rich; right; schools; science; sense; sentence; service; social; society; sort; soul; spirit; spite; states; step; strong; style; subject; sure; teachings; terms; things; thought; time; trade; training; true; truth; united; university; use; useful; violence; virtues; war; washington; way; wealth; words; work; world; worship; years; young; youth cache: 16931.txt plain text: 16931.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 19935 author: Morley, John title: Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson date: None words: 14623 flesch: 64 summary: Yet, as happens to all fine minds, there came to Emerson ways of expression deeply marked with character. I. Essay 5: Emerson London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: keywords: action; america; best; better; books; boston; carlyle; certain; character; charge; charm; church; churches; clough; come; common; concord; conduct; course; critic; criticism; day; death; dial; direction; doctrine; earth; emerson; emersonian; end; england; english; essays; europe; events; experience; expression; eyes; fact; faith; fashion; feeling; footnote; force; forms; free; fresh; friends; general; goethe; good; great; half; hawthorne; heart; high; higher; hold; home; honest; house; human; individual; institutions; intellectual; kind; large; law; lectures; life; literary; little; living; long; love; man; manner; material; men; mental; mere; mind; modern; moment; moral; morning; names; natural; nature; need; new; old; open; page; people; perfect; philosophy; pine; place; plato; poems; poetry; point; poor; power; practical; pulpit; pure; real; reformers; remarkable; result; rich; right; sanity; scholar; school; science; second; self; sense; sentence; set; simple; small; social; society; soul; spiritual; stand; strength; strong; study; style; system; teacher; teaching; things; thinking; thought; time; traits; true; truth; universal; universe; use; verse; view; war; way; white; wife; wisdom; wise; wordsworth; work; world; worth; writer; writing; years; young cache: 19935.txt plain text: 19935.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 3673 author: Ives, Charles title: Essays Before a Sonata date: None words: 33693 flesch: 61 summary: Is it not a matter nowadays of common impression or general opinion (for the law of averages plays strongly in any theory relating to human attributes) that the world's attitude towards the substance and quality and spirit of these two men, or other men of like character, if there be such, has not been affected by the flowing stream that has changed us? If an interest in, and a sympathy for, the thought-visions of men like Charles Kingsley, Marcus Aurelius, Whit tier, Montaigne, Paul of Tarsus, Robert Browning, Pythagoras, Channing, Milton, Sophocles, Swedenborg, Thoreau, Francis of Assisi, Wordsworth, Voltaire, Garrison, Plutarch, Ruskin, Ariosto, and all kindred spirits and souls of great measure, from David down to Rupert Brooke,--if a study of the thought of such men creates a sympathy, even a love for them and their ideal-part, it is certain that this, however inadequately expressed, is nearer to what music was given man for, than a devotion to Tristan's sensual love of Isolde, to the Tragic Murder of a Drunken Duke, or to the sad thoughts of a bathtub when the water is being let out. keywords: absolute; accepted; alcott; american; appeal; art; artistic; ascetic; atonal; author; bad; beautiful; beauty; beethoven; believe; best; better; boy; business; cause; century; certain; change; character; charles; church; classic; clearer; color; common; composer; conception; concerned; concord; conscious; consciousness; contemplation; country; courage; culture; day; dead; debussy; deeper; definite; definition; devotion; difference; direct; distinction; divine; doctrine; earth; easier; easy; effect; effort; emerson; emotion; enthusiasm; essays; example; experience; explanation; expression; extent; fact; far; feeling; following; footnote; form; freedom; friend; fundamental; future; genius; god; good; goodness; great; greater; greatest; half; hand; hawthorne; heart; height; help; higher; highest; history; hog; house; human; humility; ideal; illustration; imagination; impossible; individual; infinite; influence; innate; inspiration; inspired; instance; intellectual; interest; intuition; ives; kind; lack; law; laws; leaders; life; like; likely; limited; little; live; living; local; long; look; love; majority; man; mankind; manner; material; matter; means; measure; media; men; message; mind; minority; modern; moment; moral; morning; mountain; music; musical; natural; naturalist; nature; nearer; necessary; need; new; non; notes; objective; old; outward; particular; past; people; perfect; personal; personality; philosophy; physical; piano; place; poet; poetry; point; political; possibilities; power; practical; present; process; product; program; progress; property; prophecy; public; puritan; qualities; quality; rare; reality; reason; relation; relative; religion; religious; repose; right; says; school; search; second; self; sense; sensuous; sentence; sentiment; series; shadow; simple; sincere; social; sonata; soul; sounds; source; specific; spiritual; spite; stand; state; stream; strength; strong; subconscious; subject; substance; sympathy; symphony; terms; theme; theory; thing; thinking; thoreau; thought; time; today; transcendent; true; truth; tune; underlying; unity; universal; value; virtue; vision; vitality; voice; wagner; walden; way; weakness; wit; words; work; world; wrong; young cache: 3673.txt plain text: 3673.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 8641 author: Stearns, Frank Preston title: Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier date: None words: 64780 flesch: 68 summary: It was not often that he was met with in anybody's house, or seen in company with other men. They wished to live as other men had lived before them, and not in any new, unusual, or eccentric manner. keywords: able; abolitionists; accomplished; account; acquainted; address; advantage; affairs; age; air; alcott; american; ancient; anti; appledore; appreciated; argument; arnold; art; artist; attention; audience; autumn; bad; bear; beautiful; beauty; beginning; best; better; body; books; boston; boy; boys; brilliant; brook; brother; brown; browning; business; butler; captain; care; career; carlyle; case; celebrated; century; certain; change; character; chief; child; church; cicero; class; clear; close; club; coast; cold; college; common; community; company; concord; condition; conflict; congress; conversation; corner; country; course; critic; criticism; cultivated; dangerous; dark; daughter; david; day; days; deal; death; decided; deep; different; difficult; dinner; discussion; distance; distinguished; doctor; door; doubt; earlier; early; effect; effort; element; emerson; england; english; entertainment; equal; escape; essays; europe; evening; evil; excellent; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; faith; family; famous; farm; father; favor; feeling; figure; fine; finest; following; footnote; force; form; fortunate; fortune; frank; franklin; free; french; fresh; friends; fuller; future; garden; garrison; general; genius; gentleman; george; german; girls; goethe; good; government; governor; grand; granite; great; greatest; ground; half; hall; hand; handsome; hard; harvard; hawthorne; head; health; heart; hearted; help; henry; high; highest; hills; history; hoar; home; hour; house; human; humor; husband; ideas; illustration; imagination; important; influence; intellectual; interest; interesting; island; isles; john; judge; judgment; justice; kind; knowledge; known; labor; lack; ladies; lady; laighton; language; large; latin; law; lawyer; lecture; left; length; lies; life; like; likely; line; literary; literature; little; living; long; longer; longfellow; look; looking; lost; louisa; love; lowell; magnificent; making; man; mankind; manner; marble; margaret; married; massachusetts; material; matter; matthew; meeting; memory; men; mental; mile; mind; minded; miss; moment; money; moral; morning; mountains; movement; mrs; music; natural; nature; near; new; noble; north; novel; number; occasion; office; old; open; opinion; opportunity; orator; order; original; painter; painting; paper; parlor; party; past; peculiar; people; perfect; period; person; personal; phillips; philosophy; picture; pierce; place; plain; play; pleasant; poem; poetry; poets; point; political; politics; popular; portion; portrait; position; possible; power; practical; present; president; pretty; principle; private; professor; property; prose; public; pure; purity; quality; question; quiet; race; rare; reading; ready; real; reason; refined; regard; religious; remarkable; reputation; respect; result; return; rev; right; ripley; river; road; rocks; rome; room; said; sailing; sake; sanborn; saying; school; sea; second; self; sense; sensitive; set; severe; shakespeare; shoals; simple; single; sister; slavery; small; social; society; soil; sort; soul; speech; speeches; spirit; spite; spring; stand; statement; states; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; struggle; study; style; subject; success; summer; sure; sympathetic; talk; tendency; tender; tennyson; thaxter; things; thinking; thoreau; thought; time; town; tragedy; trees; true; truth; united; valuable; value; view; vigorous; village; virtue; voice; volume; walden; walk; war; washington; wasson; water; way; weather; webster; weiss; wendell; west; white; whittier; wife; wild; winter; wise; wit; women; wonder; woods; work; world; writer; writing; wrong; years; york; young; youth cache: 8641.txt plain text: 8641.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 8777 author: Fields, Annie title: Authors and Friends date: None words: 81688 flesch: 75 summary: He passed many long days and evenings, even in summer, in a lower room opening on the street, which wore the air of a physician's office, and solaced his love for the picturesque by an occasional afternoon at his early home in Cambridge. After many days he inscribed in it the following lines from Tennyson's poem addressed to James Spedding:-- Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace. keywords: absence; absent; account; acquaintance; address; admiration; affection; afternoon; age; air; american; amesbury; amused; amusing; anxious; appreciation; arnold; atlantic; audience; author; autumn; away; bad; beautiful; beauty; beginning; believe; beloved; best; better; birds; boat; body; book; boston; boy; brain; brave; break; breakfast; brief; bright; brother; business; busy; calm; cambridge; care; carlyle; case; celia; certain; chance; character; charles; charm; chief; child; children; church; circle; city; class; clear; close; cloud; club; cold; collection; college; comfort; coming; common; company; concord; condition; constant; conversation; copy; correspondence; country; course; creature; curious; cut; daily; dante; dark; daughter; day; days; dear; death; deep; delightful; description; desire; development; devoted; diary; dickens; different; difficult; dinner; distinguished; divine; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; duty; eager; earliest; early; earth; easy; emerson; england; english; enjoyment; europe; evening; excellent; excitement; existence; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fame; familiar; family; fancy; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; fields; figure; fine; fire; florida; flowers; folks; following; forgotten; form; freedom; french; fresh; friendly; friends; friendship; future; garden; general; generous; genius; george; german; gift; glad; glory; god; goethe; golden; good; grace; grand; gray; great; greater; green; ground; grown; guests; habit; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hartford; hawthorne; head; health; hearing; heart; heaven; help; henry; high; hills; history; holmes; home; hope; hospitality; hour; house; household; human; humanity; husband; idea; illness; imagination; influence; inspiration; interest; interesting; interview; intimate; introduction; island; james; john; journey; joy; june; keen; kind; kindly; knowledge; known; labor; ladies; lady; language; large; later; leave; lecture; left; length; letters; library; life; like; lines; literary; literature; little; live; living; longfellow; look; lord; loss; love; lovely; lowell; making; man; manner; manuscript; march; marked; marriage; matter; mean; meeting; memory; men; mind; miss; modern; moment; month; moon; morning; mother; mrs; music; natural; nature; near; necessity; need; new; night; noble; note; oak; occasion; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; original; outside; painting; paper; parlor; party; pass; passage; past; patience; peculiar; people; perfect; period; personal; persons; pictures; place; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poems; poet; poetic; poetry; poor; position; possible; power; presence; present; president; pretty; print; private; professor; public; publication; publisher; purpose; quaker; question; quick; quiet; reading; ready; real; record; regard; remembrance; reputation; return; reverence; river; room; rose; sad; saturday; saying; scene; scholar; school; sea; season; second; seeing; self; sense; september; series; set; shadow; shoals; silence; simplicity; singing; sister; slave; sleep; small; social; society; soft; solemn; solitude; song; sorrows; sorry; sort; soul; sound; source; speaking; speech; spirit; spite; spot; spring; stand; state; stay; stories; story; stowe; strange; street; strength; strong; student; study; subject; suffering; summer; sun; sunshine; surprise; sweet; sympathy; table; talent; talk; talking; taylor; tea; tender; tenderness; tennyson; thaxter; thee; things; think; thinking; thoreau; thought; time; tired; tom; town; trees; trouble; true; truth; turn; uncle; unusual; value; verse; view; village; visit; voice; volume; walk; want; war; warm; washington; watch; ways; weather; week; welcome; white; whittier; wide; wife; wild; william; window; winter; wise; wish; wit; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worth; writer; writing; years; york; young; youth cache: 8777.txt plain text: 8777.txt