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Although he could discern flies in the Emersonian amber, he could not brook slight or indifference toward Emerson in the youth of to-day.

Thoreau was in so many ways so characteristically Emersonian that one wonders what influence it was in the place or time that gave them both, with their disparity of ages, so nearly the same stamp.

A good Emersonian will recognize any passage from the Sage in a book of quotations, even if no name is appended.

The very gesture with which she tied her bonnetstrings, preparatory to one of her nun-like walks in her garden at Amherst, must have had something dreamy and Emersonian in it.

He could see the great auditorium, filled with cultivated people: men with Emersonian profiles, ladies whispering behind their fluttering programmes.

Emerson could have thought, and the sentences had the Emersonian pithiness.

I preferred him without hirsute adornment, but I suspected it was only another example of Emersonian perversity.

Barclay said in his speech, was like Emersonian optimism set to Wagnerian music.

It is as if the Emersonian model of Oversoul, of a bloodstream that connects living creatures, were moved out of polite nineteenth-century rhetoric and shown to be the life-saving, corporeal principle it is.

The Fifties are the fulfillment of the American prophecy: the age, not of Aquarius, but of the Emersonian self-made man, and of Zarathustra's Eternal Return.