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Identifier: americanlandslet01mitcuoft (find matches)
Title: American lands and letters
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism Authors, American
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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S &- LEITERS. the iircuiui of knowledge on the buoyancy of hisengaging und redundant talks. Miss Fuller hadbeen sometime a reverent pupil of his ; and Idaresay caught from his flowing, discursive jneth-ods, a stimulant to the more brilliant ore-ro-tnndo discursions of her own. The Ovpliic Sayings, which he contributed toTJie Dial (under Miss Fullers administration) areperhaps most cliaracteristic of him ; he was rathermystical than profound; he delighted in foraysinto regions of the unknown — with whatever ten-tative or timid steps — and although he may havel)ut a vehemence into his expression that wouldseem to imply that he was drifting in deep waters— one cannot forbear the conviction that t wouldbe easy for this man of the explorative mentalitiesto touch ground with his feet (if he chose) — inall the bays where he swims. Concord Again. Emerson would naturally have given cordialwelcome to Alcott when he came to plant himselfpermanently at the ■ Hillside in Concord. The
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i ^ ) £■ EMERSON AGAIN. 191 sobrieties and the large dignities in which theOrphic philosoj)her wrapped even his shallowestspeech and his action, could not be otherwise thanagreeable to the man who had a horror of noiseand bounce. The person who screams —Emer-son tells us in his talk on Manners — ^^ or whouses the superlative degree, or converses with heat,puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. For a little time there was a concerted schemethat Alcott should become and remain an inmateof the Emerson house : but after some trial thishome concert joggled away from good bearings :sovereignty does not easily lend itself to twinship.Another sort of home copartnery subsisted forawhile with that youthful, keen-sighted Thoreau(of whom we shall have by and by more to say) whovolunteered instruction of the philosoi^her ingardening arts — to the practical side of whicharts the editor of Tlie Dial did not take veryaptly ; indeed some pleasant observer tells us howthe young son of the house w

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