Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher and Seer an Estimate of His Character and Genius: In Prose and Verse The introductory sonnet to Emerson is pitched in a lofty key, and condenses into fourteen pithy lines a statement of the author's life-long debt of friend ship - material and spiritual. The essay itself was written twenty-odd years ago, while Mr. Alcott was still in the full Vigor of his intellect. It was privately printed, and presented to Emerson on his birthday. A limited edition was published for the first ...
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Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher and Seer an Estimate of His Character and Genius: In Prose and Verse The introductory sonnet to Emerson is pitched in a lofty key, and condenses into fourteen pithy lines a statement of the author's life-long debt of friend ship - material and spiritual. The essay itself was written twenty-odd years ago, while Mr. Alcott was still in the full Vigor of his intellect. It was privately printed, and presented to Emerson on his birthday. A limited edition was published for the first time in 1882, and readily sold. The revision and reading of the proof-sheets of this edition was the last literarywork which Mr. Alcott did, previous to the stroke of paralysis which deprived him of the perfect control of his faculties, and kept him a prisoner in his room ever afterward. It was a work occupying several months, as the octogenarian's visits to Boston were somewhat infrequent, and often including other busi ness. Such moments as he could give were, of course, valuable; and the publishers, at whose suggestion the work was undertaken, would meet him, now in the topmost story of some lofty building, and now in some dim-lighted basement, where together they would go over the unfinished sheets, -time gliding by for the nonce, all unheeded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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