"Ralph Waldo Emerson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Bayard Taylor are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of the works ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
... general I mean including in the talk all the conversational group as opposed to tete-a-tete dialog. Many people disagree with the French in this. Addison declared that there is no such thing as conversation except between two persons; and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walter Savage Landor said something of the same sort. Shelley was distinctly a tete-a-tete talker, as Mr. Benson, the present-day essayist, in some of his intimate discourses, proclaims himself to be. But Burke and Browning, the best conversationalists in the history ...
— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin
... them hear or let them forbear; the written word abides, until, slowly and unexpectedly, and in widely sundered places, it has created its own church."—RALPH WALDO EMERSON. ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... the greatest of the Transcendental group and one of the most original figures in American literature was Ralph Waldo Emerson—a figure, indeed, in many ways unique in all literature. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a Unitarian clergyman and a member of a large and sickly family, he followed the predestined path through Harvard College, graduating with ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson |
