...nature, in which there was a suggestion of the seer and the mystic. "It was good," says Hawthorne, "to meet him in the wood-paths or sometimes in our...about his presence like the garment of a shining one." His Essays. — Emerson's prose works consist for the most part of essays and addresses. Even when...

...between them from the first a strong bond of mutual interest and respect. "It was good," wrote Hawthorne, "to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if he expected to receive...

...now, being happy, I felt as if there wei no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson as i poet of deep beauty and austere tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher." This deep happiness of the Hawthornes, as nearly perfect as any recorded in literature, this happiness...

...yet beyond hope. Hawthorne was for a time his neighbour (1842-45). " It was good," says Hawthorne, " to meet him in the wood-paths, or sometimes in our...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive...

...yet beyond hope. Hawthorne was for a time his neighbour (1842-45). " It was good," says Hawthorne, " to meet him in the wood-paths, or sometimes in our...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive...

...word that would solve me the riddle of the universe, but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher." This deep happiness of the Hawthornes, as nearly perfect as any recorded in literature, this happiness...

...solve me the riddle of the universe; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no ques[ 124 ] tion to be put, and therefore admired Emerson as a poet...presence like the garment of a shining one; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive...

...WL Alden, in September, 1871, and " Hawthorne's Last Bequest," by TW Higginson, in November, 1872. him as a philosopher. It was good, nevertheless, to...presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he, so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive...

...master-word that should solve me the riddle of the universe; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...tenderness, but sought nothing from him as a philosopher." A writer in the " Chicago Times," a few years ago, thus wrote from his own knowledge of Emerson :—"...

...master-word, that should solve me the riddle of the universe; but now, being happy, I felt as if there were no question to be put, and therefore admired Emerson...diffused about his presence, like the garment of a shiningone; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting...