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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 20 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
ests as this which give literary immortality,--the perfection of a phrase,--and if you say that nevertheless there is nothing accomplished unless an author has given us a system of the universe, it can only be said that Emerson never desired to do this; and, indeed, left on record the opinion that the world is too young by some ages yet to form a creed. The system-makers have their place, no doubt, but when we consider how many of them have risen and fallen since Emerson began to write, -Schelling, Cousin, Comte, Mill, down to the Hegel of yesterday and the Spencer of today,--it is evident that the absence of a system is not the only thing which may shorten fame. Emerson's precise position as a poet cannot yet be assigned. He has been likened to an aeolian harp which now gives and then perversely withholds its music. Nothing can exceed the musical perfection of the lines:-- Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty t