{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2749", "width": "1772", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "BooIc____:", "height": "2545", "width": "1694", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2545", "width": "1694", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2599", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "wm", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "FRIENDSHIP\\n^n f\\n^ova\\nEmerson\\n^.M. Caldwell Co.\\nNew York^ Boston.", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0009.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Library of Congre\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\\nTwo Copifs Received\\nSEP 6 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nsceoNi) COPY.\\nDefiv^rod\\nO^Olrl OIVtSION,\\nSEP 18 1900\\nCopyright, igoo\\nBy H. M. Caldwell Co.\\n60938", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0010.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nX It TE have a great deal more kindness\\nthan is ever spoken. Barring\\nall the selfishness that chills like east\\nwinds the world, the whole human\\nfamily is bathed with an element of\\nlove like a fine ether. How many\\npersons we meet in houses, whom we\\nscarcely speak to, whom yet we honour,\\nand who honour us How many we\\nsee in the street, or sit with in church,\\nwhom, though silently, we warmly re-\\njoice to be with Read the language\\nof these wandering eyebeams. The\\nheart knoweth.", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nThe effect of the indulgence of this\\nhuman affection is a certain cordial\\nexhilaration. In poetry, and in com-\\nmon speech, the emotions of benevo-\\nlence and complacency which are felt\\ntoward others are likened to the ma-\\nterial effects of fire so swift, or much\\nmore swift, more active, more cheer-\\ning are these fine inward irradiations.\\nFrom the highest degree of passionate\\nlove, to the lowest degree of good-will,\\nthey make the sweetness of life.\\nOur intellectual and active powers in-\\ncrease with our affection. The scholar\\nsits down to write, and all his years of\\nmeditation do not furnish him with one\\ngood thought or happy expression but\\nit is necessary to write a letter to a\\nfriend, and, forthwith, troops of gentle\\nthoughts invest themselves, on every", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nhand, with chosen words. See in any\\nhouse, where virtue and self-respect\\nabide, the palpitation which the ap-\\nproach of a stranger causes. A com-\\nmended stranger is expected and an-\\nnounced, and an uneasiness between\\npleasure and pain invades all the hearts\\nof a household. His arrival almost\\nbrings fear to the good hearts that would\\nwelcome him. The house is dusted, all\\nthings fly into their places, the old coat\\nis exchanged for the new, and they must\\nget up a dinner if they can. Of a com-\\nmended stranger, only the good report\\nis told by others, only the good and\\nnew is heard by us. He stands to us\\nfor humanity. He is, what we wish.\\nHaving imagined and invested him,\\nwe ask how we should stand re-\\nlated in conversation and action with\\n3", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nsuch a man, and are uneasy with fear.\\nThe same idea exalts conversation with\\nhim. We talk better than we are wont.\\nWe have the nimblest fancy, a richer\\nmemory, and our dumb devil has taken\\nleave for the time. For long hours we\\ncan continue a series of sincere, grace-\\nful, rich communications, drawn from\\nthe oldest, secretest experience, so that\\nthey who sit by, of our own kinsfolk\\nand acquaintance, shall feel a lively\\nsurprise at our unusual powers. But\\nas soon as the stranger begins to in-\\ntrude his partialities, his definitions,\\nhis defects, into the conversation, it is\\nall over. He has heard the first, the\\nlast and best, he will ever hear from us.\\nHe is no stranger now. Vulgarity, igno-\\nrance, misapprehension, are old acquaint-\\nances. Now, when he comes, he may\\n4", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nget the order, the dress, and the dinner,\\nbut the throbbing of the heart, and the\\ncommunications of the soul, no more.\\nPleasant are these jets of affection\\nwhich resume a young world for me\\nagain. Delicious is a just and firm\\nencounter of two, in a thought, in a\\nfeeling. How beautiful, on their ap-\\nproach to this beating heart, the steps\\nand forms of the gifted and the true\\nThe moment we indulge our affections\\nthe earth is metamorphosed there is\\nno winter, and no night all tragedies,\\nall ennuis vanish all duties even noth-\\ning fills the proceeding eternity but the\\nforms all radiant of beloved persons.\\nLet the soul be assured that somewhere\\nin the universe it should rejoin its friend,\\nand it would be content and cheerful\\nalone for a thousand years.\\n5", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nI awoke this morning with devout\\nthanksgiving for my friends, the old\\nand the new. Shall I not call God,\\nthe Beautiful, who daily showeth him-\\nself so to me in his gifts I chide\\nsociety, I embrace solitude, and yet I\\nam not so ungrateful as not to see the\\nwise, the lovely, and the noble-minded,\\nas from time to time they pass my gate.\\nWho hears me, who understands me,\\nbecomes mine a possession for all\\ntime. Nor is nature so poor, but she\\ngives me this joy several times, and\\nthus we weave social threads of our\\nown, a new web of relations and, as\\nmany thoughts in succession substan-\\ntiate themselves, we shall by and by\\nstand in a new world of our own\\ncreation, and no longer strangers and\\npilgrims in a traditionary globe. My\\n6", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nfriends have come to me unsought.\\nThe great God gave them to me. By\\noldest right, by the divine affinity of\\nvirtue with itself, I find them, or rather,\\nnot I, but the Deity in me and in them,\\nboth deride and cancel the thick walls\\nof individual character, relation, age,\\nsex, and circumstance, at which he\\nusually connives, and now makes many\\none. High thanks I owe you, ex-\\ncellent lovers, who carry out the world\\nfor me to new and noble depths, and\\nenlarge the meaning of all my thoughts.\\nThese are not stark and stiffened per-\\nsons, but the newborn poetry of God\\npoetry without stop hymn, ode and\\npoetry still flowing, and not yet caked\\nin dead books with annotation and\\ngrammar, but Apollo and the Muses\\nchanting still. Will these two sepa-\\n7", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nrate themselves from me again, or\\nsome of them I know not, but I\\nfear it not for my relation to them\\nis so pure, that we hold by simple\\naffinity, and the Genius of my life\\nbeing thus social, the same affinity will\\nexert its energy on whomsoever is as\\nnoble as these men and women, where-\\never I may be.\\nI confess to an extreme tenderness\\nof nature on this point. It is almost\\ndangerous to me to crush the sweet\\npoison of misused wine of the affec-\\ntions. A new person is to me always\\na great event, and hinders me from\\nsleep. I have had such fine fancies\\nlately about two or three persons,\\nas have given me delicious hours but\\nthe joy ends in the dav it yields no\\nfruit. Thought is not born of it my\\n8", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\naction is very little modified. J must\\nfeel pride in my friend s accomplish-\\nments as if they were mine wild,\\ndelicate, throbbing property in his\\nvirtues. I feel as warmly when he\\nis praised as the lover when he hears\\napplause of his engaged maiden. We\\noverestimate the conscience of our\\ntriend. His goodness seems better\\nthan our goodness, his nature finer,\\nhis temptations less. Everything that\\nis his, his name, his form, his dress,\\nbooks, and instruments, fancy enhances.\\nOur own thought sounds new and\\nlarger from his mouth.\\nYet the systole and diastole of the\\nheart are not without their analogy in\\nthe ebb and flow of love. Friendship,\\nlike the immortality of the soul, is too\\ngood to be believed. The lover, be-", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nholding his maiden, half knows that\\nshe is not verily that which he wor-\\nships, and in the golden hour of\\nfriendship, we are surprised with shades\\nof suspicion and unbelief. We doubt\\nthat we bestow on our hero the vir-\\ntues in which he shines, and afterward\\nworship the form to which we have\\nascribed this divine inhabitation. In\\nstrictness, the soul does not respect\\nmen as it respects itself. In strict\\nscience, all persons underlie the same\\ncondition of an infinite remoteness.\\nShall we fear to cool our love by fac-\\ning the fact, by mining for the meta-\\nphysical foundation of this Elysian\\ntemple Shall I not be as real as the\\nthings I see If I am, I shall not fear\\nto know them for what they are.\\nTheir essence is not less beautiful than", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\ntheir appearance, though it needs finer\\norgans for its apprehension. The root\\nof the plant is not unsightly to science,\\nthough for chaplets and festoons we\\ncut the stem short. And I must\\nhazard the production of the bald fact\\namid these pleasing reveries, though\\nit should prove an Egyptian skull at\\nour banquet. A man who stands\\nunited with his thought, conceives\\nmagnificently to himself. He is con-\\nscious of a universal success, even\\nthough bought by uniform particular\\nfailures. No advantages, no powers,\\nno gold or force can be any match\\nfor him. I cannot choose but rely on\\nmy own poverty, more than on your\\nwealth. I cannot make your con-\\nsciousness tantamount to mine. Only\\nthe star dazzles j the planet has a faint,", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nmoon-like ray. I hear what you say of\\nthe admirable parts and tried temper\\nof the party you praise, but I see well\\nthat for all his purple cloaks I shall not\\nlike him, unless he is at last a poor\\nGreek like me. I cannot deny it, O\\nfriend, that the vast shadow of the\\nphenomenal includes thee, also, in its\\npied and painted immensity thee,\\nalso, compared with whom all else is\\nshadow. Thou art not Being, as Truth\\nis, as Justice is thou art not my soul,\\nbut a picture and effigy of that. Thou\\nhast come to me lately, and already\\nthou art seizing thy hat and cloak.\\nIs it not that the soul puts forth friends,\\nas the tree puts forth leaves, and\\npresently by the germination of new\\nbuds, extrudes the old leaf? The law\\nof nature is alternation for evermore,\\n12", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nEach electrical state superinduces the\\nopposite. The soul environs itself\\nwith friends, that it may enter into\\na grander self-acquaintance or solitude\\nand it goes alone, for a season, that it\\nmay ex?lt its conversation or society.\\nThis method betrays itself along the\\nwhole history of our personal relations.\\nEver the instinct of affection revives\\nthe hope of union with our mates,\\nand ever the returning sense of in-\\nsulation recalls us from the chase.\\nThus every man passes his life in\\nthe search after friendship, and if he\\nshould record his true sentiment, he\\nmight write a letter like this, to each\\nnew candidate for his love\\nDear Friend\\nIf I was sure of thee, sure of thy capac-\\nity sure to match my mood with thine, I\\n13", "height": "2635", "width": "1710", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nshould never think again of trifles, in relation\\nto thy comings and goings. I am not very\\nwise my moods are quite attainable\\nand I respect thy genius it is to me as yet\\nunfathomed yet dare I not presume in thee\\na perfect intelligence of me, and so thou art\\nto me a delicious torment.\\nThine ever, or never.\\nYet these uneasy pleasures and fine\\npains are for curiosity, and not for life.\\nThey are not to be indulged. This is\\nto weave cobweb, and not cloth. Our\\nfriendships hurry to short and poor\\nconclusions, because we have made\\nthem a texture of wine and dreams,\\ninstead of the tough fibre of the human\\nheart. The laws of friendship are\\ngreat, austere, and eternal, of one web\\nwith the laws of nature and of morals.\\nBut we have aimed at a swift and petty\\nH", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nbenefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.\\nWe snatch at the slowest fruit in the\\nwhole garden of God, which many sum-\\nmers and many winters must ripen. We\\nseek our friend not sacredly but with\\nan adulterate passion which would\\nappropriate him to ourselves. In vain.\\nWe are armed all over with subtle\\nantagonisms, which, as soon as we\\nmeet, begin to play, and translate all\\npoetry into stale prose. Almost all\\npeople descend to meet. All associ-\\nation must be a compromise, and, what\\nis worst, the very flower and aroma of\\nthe flower of each of the beautiful na-\\ntures disappears as they approach each\\nother. What a perpetual disappoint-\\nment is actual society, even of the\\nvirtuous and gifted After interviews\\nhave been compassed with long fore-\\n15", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nsight, we must be tormented presently\\nby baffled blows, by sudden, unseason-\\nable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and\\nof animal spirits, in the heyday of\\nfriendship and thought. Our faculties\\ndo not play us true, and both parties\\nare relieved by solitude.\\nI ought to be equal to every relation.\\nIt makes no difference how many\\nfriends I have, and what content I can\\nfind in conversing with each, if there\\nbe one to whom I am not equal.\\nIf I have shrunk unequal from one\\ncontest, instantly the joy I find in all\\nthe rest becomes mean and cowardly.\\nI should hate myself, if then I made\\nmy other friends my asylum.\\nThe valiant warrior famoused for fight.\\nAfter a hundred victories, once foiled,\\ni6", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nIs from the book of honour razed quite,\\nAnd all the rest forgot for which he toiled.\\nOur impatience is thus sharply re-\\nbuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a\\ntough husk in which a delicate organ-\\nisation is protected from premature\\nripening. It would be lost if it knew\\nitself before any of the best souls were\\nyet ripe enough to know and own it.\\nRespect the naturlangsamkeit which\\nhardens the ruby in a million years,\\nand works in duration, in which Alps\\nand Andes come and go as rainbows.\\nThe good spirit of our life has no\\nheaven which is the price of rashness.\\nLove, which is the essence of God, is\\nnot for levity, but for the total worth\\nof man. Let us not have this childish\\nluxury in our regards but the austerest\\n17", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nworth let us approach our friend with\\nan audacious trust in the truth of his\\nheart, in the breadth, impossible to be\\noverturned, of his foundations.\\nThe attractions of this subject are\\nnot to be resisted, and I leave, for the\\ntime, all account of subordinate social\\nbenefit, to speak of that select and\\nsacred relation which is a kind of\\nabsolute, and which even leaves the\\nlanguage of love suspicious and com-\\nmon, so much is this purer, and nothing\\nis so much divine.\\nI do not wish to treat friendships\\ndaintily, but with roughest courage.\\nWhen they are real, they are not glass\\nthreads or frost-work, but the solidest\\nthing we know. For now, after so\\nmany ages of experience, what do we\\nknow of nature, or of ourselves Not", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\none step has man taken toward the\\nsolution of the problem of his destiny.\\nIn one condemnation of folly stand\\nthe whole universe of men. But the\\nsweet sincerity of joy and peace, which\\nI draw from this alliance with my\\nbrother s soul, is the nut itself whereof\\nall nature and all thought is but the\\nhusk and shell. Happy is the house\\nthat shelters a friend It might well\\nbe built, like a festal bower or arch, to\\nentertain him a single day. Happier,\\nif he know the solemnity of that rela-\\ntion, and honour its law It is no idle\\nband, no holiday engagement. He who\\noffers himself a candidate for that cove-\\nnant comes up, like an Olympian, to\\nthe great games, where the first-born\\nof the world are the competitors. He\\nproposes himself for contests where\\n19", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nf\\nTime, Want, Danger are in the Hsts,\\nand he alone is victor who has truth\\nenough in his constitution to preserve\\nthe delicacy of his beauty from the\\nwear and tear of all these. The gifts\\nof fortune may be present or absent,\\nbut all the hap in that contest depends\\non intrinsic nobleness, and the con-\\ntempt of trifles. There are two ele-\\nments that go to the composition of\\nfriendship, each so sovereign, that I\\ncan detect no superiority in either, no\\nreason why either should be first named.\\nOne is Truth. A friend is a person\\nwith whom I may be sincere. Before\\nhim, I may think aloud. I am arrived\\nat last in the presence of a man so real\\nand equal that I may drop even those\\nundermost garments of dissimulation,\\ncourtesy, and second thought, which", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nmen never put ofF, and may deal with\\nhim with the simplicity and wholeness,\\nwith which one chemical atom meets\\nanother. Sincerity is the luxury al-\\nlowed, like diadems and authority, only\\nto the highest rank, that being per-\\nmitted to speak truth, as having none\\nabove it to court or conform unto.\\nEvery man alone is sincere. At the\\nentrance of a second person, hypocrisy\\nbegins. We parry and fend the ap-\\nproach of our fellow man by compli-\\nments, by gossip, by amusements, by\\naffairs. We cover up our thought\\nfrom him under a hundred folds. I\\nknew a man who, under a certain re-\\nligious frenzy, cast off this drapery,\\nand omitting all compliments and com-\\nmonplace, spoke to the conscience of\\nevery person he encountered, and that", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nwith great insight and beauty. At first\\nhe was resisted, and all men agreed he\\nwas mad. But persisting, as indeed he\\ncould not help doing, for some time in\\nthis course, he attained to the advan-\\ntage of bringing every man of his\\nacquaintance into true relations with\\nhim. No man would think of speak-\\ning falsely with him, or of putting him\\noff with any chat of markets or read-\\ning-rooms. But every man was con-\\nstrained by so much sincerity to face\\nhim, and what love of nature, what\\npoetry, what symbol of truth he had,\\nhe did certainly show him. But to\\nmost of us society shows not its face\\nand eye, but its side and its back. To\\nstand in true relations with men in a\\nfalse age, is worth a fit of insanity, is\\nit not We can seldom go erect.", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nAlmost every man we meet requires\\nsome civility, requires to be humoured\\nhe has some fame, some talent,\\nsome whim of religion or philanthropy\\nin his head that is not to be questioned,\\nand so spoils all conversation with him.\\nBut a friend is a sane man who ex-\\nercises not my ingenuity but me. My\\nfriend gives me entertainment without\\nrequiring me to stoop, or to lisp, or to\\nmask myself. A friend, therefore, is a\\nsort of paradox in nature. I who alone\\nam, I who see nothing in nature whose\\nexistence I can affirm with equal evi-\\ndence to my own, behold now the\\nsemblance of my being in all its\\nheight, variety, and curiosity, reiter-\\nated in a foreign form so that a\\nfriend may well be reckoned the\\nmasterpiece of nature.\\n^3", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nThe other element of friendship is\\nTenderness. We are holden to men\\nby every sort of tie, by blood, by pride,\\nby fear, by hope, by lucre, by lust, by\\nhate, by admiration, by every circum-\\nstance and badge and trifle, but we\\ncan scarce believe that so much char-\\nacter can subsist in another as to draw\\nus by love. Can another be so blessed,\\nand we so pure, that we can offer him\\ntenderness When a man becomes\\ndear to me, I have touched the goal of\\nfortune. I find very little written\\ndirectly to the heart of this matter\\nin books. And yet I have one text\\nwhich I cannot choose but remember.\\nMy author says, I olFer myself faintly\\nand bluntly to those whose I effec-\\ntually am, and tender myself least to\\nhim to whom I am the most devoted.\\n24", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nI wish that friendship should have feet,\\nas well as eyes and eloquence. It must\\nplant itself on the ground, before it\\nwalks over the moon. I wish it to\\nbe a little of a citizen, before it is\\nquite a cherub. We chide the citizen\\nbecause he makes love a commodity.\\nIt is an exchange of gifts, of useful\\nloans it is good neighbourhood it\\nwatches with the sick it holds the\\npall at the funeral and quite loses\\nsight of the delicacies and nobility of\\nthe relation. But though we cannot\\nfind the god under this disguise of a\\nsutler, yet, on the other hand, we can-\\nnot forgive the poet if he spins his\\nthread too fine, and does not substan-\\ntiate his romance by the municipal\\nvirtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity,\\nand pity. I hate the prostitution of the\\n25", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nname of friendship to signify modish\\nand worldly alliances. I much prefer\\nthe company of ploughboys and tin-\\npeddlers, to the silken and perfumed\\namity which only celebrates its days\\nof encounter by a frivolous display, by\\nrides in a curricle, and dinners at the\\nbest taverns. The end of friendship\\nis a commerce the most strict and\\nhomely that can be joined more strict\\nthan any of which we have experience.\\nIt is for aid and comfort through all\\nthe relations and passages of life and\\ndeath. It is fit for serene days, and\\ngraceful gifts, and country rambles,\\nbut also for rough roads and hard fare,\\nshipwreck, poverty, and persecution.\\nIt keeps company with the sallies of\\nthe wit and the trances of religion.\\nWe are to dignify to each other the\\n26", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\ndaily needs and offices of man s life,\\nand embellish it by courage, wisdom,\\nand unity. It should never fall into\\nsomething usual and settled, but should\\nbe alert and inventive, and add rhyme\\nand reason to what was drudgery.\\nFor perfect friendship it may be said\\nto require natures so rare and costly,\\nso well tempered each, and so happily\\nadapted, and withal so circumstanced\\n(for even in that particular, a poet\\nsays, love demands that the parties\\nbe altogether paired), that very seldom\\ncan its satisfaction be realised. It\\ncannot subsist in its perfection, say\\nsome of those who are learned in this\\nwarm lore of the heart, betwixt more\\nthan two. I am not quite so strict\\nin my terms, perhaps because I have\\nnever known so high a fellowship as\\n27", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nothers. I please my imagination more\\nwith a circle of godlike men and women\\nvariously related to each other,\\nand between whom subsists a lofty in-\\ntelligence. But I find this law of\\none to one^ peremptory for conversation,\\nwhich is the practice and consumma-\\ntion of friendship. Do not mix waters\\ntoo much. The best mix as ill as\\ngood and bad. You shall have very\\nuseful and cheering discourse at several\\ntimes with two several men, but let\\nall three of you come together, and\\nyou shall not have one new and hearty\\nword. Two may talk and one may\\nhear, but three cannot take part in\\na conversation of the most sincere\\nand searching sort. In good company\\nthere is never such discourse between\\ntwo, across the table, as takes place\\n38", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nwhen you leave them alone. In good\\ncompany, the individuals at once merge\\ntheir egotism into a social soul exactly\\ncoextensive with the several con-\\nsciousnesses there present. No par-\\ntialities of friend to friend, no fond-\\nnesses of brother to sister, of wife to\\nhusband, are there pertinent, but quite\\notherwise. Only he may then speak\\nwho can sail on the common thought\\nof the party, and not poorly limited to\\nhis own. Now this convention, which\\ngood sense demands, destroys the high\\nfreedom of great conversation, which\\nrequires an absolute running of two\\nsouls into one.\\nNo two men but being left alone with\\neach other, enter into simpler relations.\\nYet it is affinity that determines which\\ntwo shall converse. Unrelated men\\n29", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\ngive little joy to each other will\\nnever suspect the latent powers of\\neach. We talk sometimes of a great\\ntalent for conversation, as if it were\\na permanent property in some individ-\\nuals. Conversation is an evanescent\\nrelation no more. A man is reputed\\nto have thought and eloquence he can-\\nnot, for all that, say a word to his\\ncousin or his uncle. They accuse his\\nsilence with as much reason as they\\nwould blame the insignificance of a\\ndial in the shade. In the sun it will\\nmark the hour. Among those who\\nenjoy his thought, he will regain his\\ntongue.\\nFriendship requires that rare mean\\nbetwixt likeness and unlikeness, that\\npiques each with the presence of power\\nand of consent in the other party. Let\\n30.", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nme alone to the end of the world, rather\\nthan that my friend should over-step\\nby a word or a look his real sympathy.\\nI am equally balked by antagonism\\nand by compliance. Let him not\\ncease an instant to be himself. The only\\njoy I have in his being mine, is that\\nthe not mine is mine. It turns the\\nstomach, it blots the daylight where\\nI looked for a manly furtherance, or at\\nleast a manly resistance, to find a mush\\nof concession. Better be a nettle in\\nthe side of your friend, than his echo.\\nThe condition which high friendship\\ndemands is ability to do without it.\\nTo be capable of that high office re-\\nquires great and sublime parts. There\\nmust be very two before there can be\\nvery one. Let it be an alliance of two\\nlarge formidable natures, mutually be-\\n31", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nheld, mutually feared, before yet they\\nrecognise the deep identity which be-\\nneath these disparities unites them.\\nHe only is fit for this society who\\nis magnanimous. He must be so, to\\nknow its law. He must be one who\\nis sure that greatness and goodness are\\nalways economy. He must be one\\nwho is not swift to intermeddle with\\nhis fortunes. Let him not dare to\\nintermeddle with this. Leave to the\\ndiamond its ages to grow, nor expect\\nto accelerate the births of the eternal.\\nFriendship demands a religious treat-\\nment. We must not be wilful, we\\nmust not provide. We talk of choos-\\ning our friends, but friends are self-\\nelected. Reverence is a great part of\\nit. Treat your friend as a spectacle.\\nOf course, if he be a man, he has\\n.32", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nmerits that are not yours, and that you\\ncannot honour, if you must needs hold\\nhim close to your person. Stand aside.\\nGive those merits room. Let them\\nmount and expand. Be not so much\\nhis friend that you can never know his\\npeculiar energies, like fond mammas\\nwho shut up their boy in the house\\nuntil he is almost grown a girl. Are\\nyou the friend of your friend s buttons,\\nor of his thought To a great heart\\nhe will still be a stranger in a thousand\\nparticulars, that he may come near\\nin the holiest ground. Leave it to\\ngirls and boys to regard a friend as\\nproperty, and to suck a short and all-\\nconfounding pleasure instead of the pure\\nnectar of God.\\nLet us buy our entrance to this guild\\nby a long probation. Why should we\\n33", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\ndesecrate noble and beautiful souls by\\nintruding on them Why insist on\\nrash personal relations with your\\nfriend Why go to his house, or\\nknow his mother and brother and\\nsisters Why be visited by him at\\nyour own Are these things material\\nto our covenant Leave this touch-\\ning and clawing. Let him be to me a\\nspirit. A message, a thought, a sin-\\ncerity, a glance from him I want, but\\nnot news, nor pottage. I can get poli-\\ntics, and chat, and neighbourly con-\\nveniences, from cheaper companions.\\nShould not the society of my friend be\\nto me poetic, pure, universal, and great\\nas nature itself? Ought I to feel that\\nour tie is profane in comparison with\\nyonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the\\nhorizon, or that clump of waving grass\\n3,4", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nthat divides the brook Let us not\\nviHfy but raise it to that standard. That\\ngreat defying eye, that scornful beauty\\nof his mien and action, do not pique\\nyourself on reducing, but rather fortify\\nand enhance. Worship his superiori-\\nties. Wish him not less by a thought,\\nbut hoard and tell them all. Guard\\nhim as thy great counterpart have a\\nprincedom to thy friend. Let him be\\nto thee for ever a sort of beautiful\\nenemy, untamable, devoutly revered,\\nand not a trivial conveniency to be\\nsoon outgrown and cast aside. The\\nhues of the opal, the light of the\\ndiamond, are not to be seen, if the eye\\nis too near. To my friend I write a\\nletter, and from him I receive a letter.\\nThat seems to you a little. Me it\\nsuffices. It is a spiritual gift worthy\\n35", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nof him to give and of me to receive.\\nIt profanes nobody. In these warm\\nHnes the heart will trust itself, as it\\nwill not to the tongue, and pour out the\\nprophecy of a godlier existence than all\\nthe annals of heroism have yet made\\ngood.\\nRespect so far the holy laws of this\\nfellowship as not to prejudice its per-\\nfect flower by your impatience for its\\nopening. We must be our own before\\nwe can be another s. There is at least\\nthis satisfaction in crime, according\\nto the Latin proverb you can speak\\nto your accomplice on even terms.\\nCrimen quos inqulnat^ aquat. To\\nthose whom we admire and love, at\\nfirst we cannot. Yet the least defect\\nof self-possession vitiates, in my judg-\\nment, the entire relation. There can\\n36", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nnever be deep peace between two\\nspirits, never mutual respect until, in\\ntheir dialogue, each stands for the\\nwhole world.\\nWhat is so great as friendship, let\\nus carry with what grandeur of spirit\\nwe can. Let us be silent so we\\nmay hear the whisper of the gods.\\nLet us not interfere. Who set you\\nto cast about what you should say to\\nthe select souls, or to say anything\\nto such No matter how ingenious,\\nno matter how graceful and bland.\\nThere are innumerable degrees of folly\\nand wisdom, and for you to say aught\\nis to be frivolous. Wait, and thy soul\\nshall speak. Wait until the necessary\\nand everlasting overpowers you, until\\nday and night avail themselves of your\\nlips. The only money of God is God.\\n^1", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nHe pays never with anything less or\\nanything else. The only reward of\\nvirtue, is virtue the only way to have\\na friend, is to be one.. Vain to hope\\nto come nearer a man by getting into\\nhis house. If unHke, his soul only flees\\nfaster from you, and you shall catch\\nnever a true glance of his eye. We\\nsee the noble afar off, and they repel\\nus why should we intrude Late\\nvery late we perceive that no ar-\\nrangements, no introductions, no con-\\nsuetudes, or habits of society, would be\\nof any avail to establish us in such re-\\nlations with them as we desire but\\nsolely the uprise of nature in us to the\\nsame degree it Is in them then shall\\nwe meet as water with water and if\\nwe should not meet them then, we\\nshall not want them, for we are already\\n3S", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nthey. In the last analysis, love is only\\nthe reflection of a man s own worthi-\\nness from other men. Men have\\nsometimes exchanged names with their\\nfriends, as if they would signify that in\\ntheir friend each loved his own soul.\\nThe higher the style we demand of\\nfriendship, of course the less easy to\\nestablish it with flesh and blood. We\\nwalk alone in the world. Friends,\\nsuch as we desire, are dreams and\\nfables. But a sublime hope cheers\\never the faithful heart, that elsewhere,\\nin other regions of the universal power,\\nsouls are now acting, enduring, and\\ndaring, which can love us, and which\\nwe can love. We may congratu-\\nlate ourselves that the period of\\nnonage, of follies, of blunders, and\\nof shame, is passed in solitude, and\\n39", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nwhen we are finished men, we shall\\ngrasp heroic hands in heroic hands.\\nOnly be admonished by what you\\nalready see, not to strike leagues of\\nfriendship with cheap persons, where\\nno friendship can be. Our impatience\\nbetrays us into rash and foolish alliances\\nwhich no God attends. By persisting\\nin your path, though you forfeit the\\nlittle, you gain the great. You become\\npronounced. You demonstrate yourself\\nso as to put yourself out of the reach\\nof false relations, and you draw to you\\nthe first-born of the world, those rare\\npilgrims whereof only one or two\\nwander in nature at once, and before\\nwhom the vulgar great, show as spec-\\ntres and shadows merely.\\nIt is foolish to be afraid of making\\nour ties too spiritual, as if so we could\\n40", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nlose any genuine love. Whatever cor-\\nrection of our popular views we make\\nfrom insight, nature will be sure to\\nbear us out in, and though it seem to\\nrob us of some joy, will repay us with\\na greater. Let us feel, if we will, the\\nabsolute insulation of man. We are\\nsure that we have all in us. We go\\nto Europe, or we pursue persons, or\\nwe read books, in the instinctive faith\\nthat these will call it out and reveal us\\nto ourselves. Beggars all. The per-\\nsons are such as we the Europe, an\\nold faded garment of dead persons the\\nbooks, their ghosts. Let us drop this\\nidolatry. Let us give over this mendi-\\ncancy. Let us even bid our dearest\\nfriends farewell, and defy them, saying,\\nWho are you Unhand me. I will\\nbe dependent no more. Ah seest\\n41", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nthou not, O brother, that thus we part\\nonly to meet again on a higher platform,\\nand only be more each other s, because\\nwe are more our own A friend is\\nJanus-faced he looks to the past and\\nthe future. He is the child of all my\\nforegoing hours, the prophet of those\\nto come. He is the harbinger of a\\ngreater friend. It is the property of\\nthe divine to be reproductive.\\nI do then with my friends as I do\\nwith my books. I would have them\\nwhere I can find them, but I seldom use\\nthem. We must have society on our\\nown terms, and admit or exclude it on\\nthe slightest cause. I cannot afford to\\nspeak much with my friend. If he is\\ngreat, he makes me so great that I can-\\nnot descend to converse. In the great\\ndays, presentiments hover before me, far\\n42", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nbefore me in the firmament. I ought\\nthen to dedicate myself to them. I go in\\nthat I may seize them I go out that I\\nmay seize them. I fear only that I may\\nlose them receding into the sky in\\nwhich now they are only a patch of\\nbrighter light. Then, though I prize\\nmy friends, I cannot afford to talk with\\ntheni and study their visions, lest I lose\\nmy own. It would indeed give me a\\ncertain household joy to quit this lofty\\nseeking, this spiritual astronomy, or\\nsearch of stars, and come down to\\nwarm sympathies with you but then\\nI know well I shall mourn always the\\nvanishing of my mighty gods. It is\\ntrue, next _week I shall have languid\\ntimes, when I can well afford to\\noccupy myself with foreign objects\\nthen I shall regret the lost literature\\n43^", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nof your mind, and wish you were by my\\nside again. But if you come, perhaps\\nyou will fill my mind only with new\\nvisions, not with yourself but with\\nyour lustres, and I shall not be able\\nany more than now to converse with\\nyou. So I will owe to my friends this\\nevanescent intercourse. I will re-\\nceive from them not what they have,\\nbut what they are. They shall\\ngive me that which properly they can-\\nnot give me, but which radiates from\\nthem. But they shall not hold me by\\nany relations less subtle and pure. We\\nwill meet as though we met not, and\\npart as though we parted not.\\nIt has seemed to me lately more\\npossible than I knew, to carry a friend-\\nship greatly, on one side, without due\\ncorrespondence on the other. Why\\n44", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nshould I cumber myself with the poor\\nfact that the receiver is not capacious\\nIt never troubles the sun that some of\\nhis rays fall wide and vain into un-\\ngrateful space, and only a small part\\non the reflecting planet. Let your\\ngreatness educate the crude and cold\\ncompanion. If he is unequal, he will\\npresently pass away, but thou art en-\\nlarged by thy own shining; and, no\\nlonger a mate for frogs and worms,\\ndost soar and burn with the gods of\\nthe empyrean. It is thought a dis-\\ngrace to love unrequited. But the\\ngreat will see that true love cannot\\nbe unrequited. True love transcends\\ninstantly the unworthy object, and\\ndwells and broods on the eternal,\\nand when the poor, interposed mask\\ncrumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid\\n45", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "Friendship\\nof so much earth, and feels its inde-\\npendency the surer. Yet these things\\nmay hardly be said without a sort of\\ntreachery to the relation. The essence\\nof friendship is entireness, a total mag-\\nnanimity and trust. It must not sur-\\nmise or provide for infirmity. It treats\\nits object as a god, that it may deify\\nboth.\\n46", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Love", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Love\\nT?VERY soul is a celestial Venus to\\nevery other soul. The heart has\\nits sabbaths and jubilees, in which the\\nworld appears as a hymeneal feast,\\nand all natural sounds and the circle\\nof the seasons are erotic odes and\\ndances. Love is omnipresent in nature\\nas motive and reward. Love is our\\nhighest word, and the synonym of\\nGod. Every promise of the soul has\\ninnumerable fulfilments each of its\\njoys ripens into a new want. Nature,\\nuncontainable, flowing, fore-looking, in\\nthe first sentiment of kindness antici-\\n49", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "m Love\\npates already a benevolence which shall\\nlose all particular regards in its general\\nlight. The introduction to this felicity\\nis in a private and tender relation of\\none to one, vi^hich is the enchantment\\nof human life j which, like a certain\\ndivine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on\\nman at one period, and works a revolu-\\ntion in his mind and body unites him\\nto his race, pledges him to the domestic\\nand civic relations, carries him with\\nnew sympathy into nature, enhances\\nthe power of the senses, opens the\\nimagination, adds to his character\\nheroic and sacred attributes, estab-\\nlishes marriage, and gives permanence\\nto human society.\\nThe natural association of the senti-\\nment of love with the heyday of the\\nblood, seems to require that in order to\\n50", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nportray it In vivid tints which every\\nyouth and maid should confess to be\\ntrue to their throbbing experience, one\\nmust not be too old. The delicious\\nfancies of youth reject the least savour\\nof a mature philosophy, as chilling with\\nage and pedantry their purple bloom.\\nAnd, therefore, I know I incur the im-\\nputation of unnecessary hardness and\\nstoicism from those who compose the\\nCourt and Parliament of Love. But\\nfrom these formidable censors I shall\\nappeal to my seniors. For it is to be\\nconsidered that this passion of which\\nwe speak, though it begin with the\\nyoung, yet forsakes not the old, or\\nrather suffers no one who is truly its\\nservant to grow old, but makes the\\naged participators of it, not less than\\nthe tender maiden, though in a dif-\\n51", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "Love\\nferent and nobler sort. For, It is a\\nfire that kindling its first embers in the\\nnarrow nook of a private bosom,\\ncaught from a wandering spark out\\nof another private heart, glows and\\nenlarges until it warms and beams\\nupon multitudes of men and women,\\nupon the universal heart of all, and\\nso lights up the whole world and all\\nnature with its generous flames. It\\nmatters not, therefore, whether we at-\\ntempt to describe the passion at twenty,\\nat thirty, or at eighty years. He who\\npaints it at the first period, will lose\\nsome of its later he who paints it at\\nthe last, some of its earlier traits. Only\\nit is to be hoped that by patience and\\nthe muses aid, we may attain to that\\ninward view of the law, which shall\\ndescribe a truth ever young, ever beau-\\n5^", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Love^\\ntiful, so central that It shall commend\\nitself to the eye at whatever angle be-\\nholden.\\nAnd the first condition is, that we\\nmust leave a too close and lingering\\nadherence to the actual, to facts, and\\nstudy the sentiment as it appeared in\\nhope and not in history. For each\\nman sees his own life defaced and dis-\\nfigured, as the life of man is not, to his\\nimagination. Each man sees over his\\nown experience a certain slime of error,\\nwhile that of other men looks fair and\\nideal. Let any man go back to those\\ndelicious relations which make the\\nbeauty of his life, which have given\\nhim sincerest instruction and nourish-\\nment, he will shrink and shrink. Alas\\nI know not why, but infinite compunc-\\ntions embitter in mature life all the\\nS3", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Si-?\\nLove\\nremembrances of budding sentiment,\\nand cover every beloved name. Every-\\nthing is beautiful seen from the point\\nof the intellect, or as truth. But all is\\nsour, if seen as experience. Details\\nare always melancholy the plan is\\nseemly and noble. It is strange how\\npainful is the actual world the pain-\\nful kingdom of time and place. There\\ndwells care and canker and fear. With\\nthought, with the ideal, is immortal\\nhilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all\\nthe muses sing. But with names and\\npersons and the partial interests of to-\\nday and yesterday, is grief.\\nThe strong bent of nature Is seen\\nin the proportion which this topic of\\npersonal relations usurps in the con-\\nversation of society. What do we wish\\nto know of any worthy person so much\\n54", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nas how he has sped in the history of\\nthis sentiment What books in the\\ncirculating libraries circulate How\\nwe glow over these novels of passion,\\nwhen the story is told with any spark\\nof truth and nature And what fastens\\nattention, in the intercourse of life,\\nlike any passage betraying affection\\nbetween two parties Perhaps we\\nnever saw them before, and never\\nshall meet them again. But we see\\nthem exchange a glance, or betray a\\ndeep emotion, and we are no longer\\nstrangers. We understand them, and\\ntake the warmest interest in the de-\\nvelopment of the romance. All man-\\nkind love a lover. The earliest demon-\\nstrations of complacency and kindness\\nare nature s most winning pictures. It\\nis the dawn of civility and grace in the\\n55", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Love\\ncoarse and rustic. The rude village\\nboy teases the girls about the school-\\nhouse door but to-day he comes run-\\nning into the entry, and meets one fair\\nchild arranging her satchel he holds\\nher books to help her, and instantly it\\nseems to him as if she removed herself\\nfrom him infinitely, and was a sacred\\nprecinct. Among the throng of girls\\nhe runs rudely enough, but one alone\\ndistances him and these two little\\nneighbours that were so close just now,\\nhave learned to respect each other s\\npersonality. Or who can avert his\\neyes from the engaging, half-artful,\\nhalf-artless ways of schoolgirls who\\ngo into the country shops to buy a\\nskein of silk or a sheet of paper, and\\ntalk half an hour about nothing, with\\nthe broad-faced, good-natured shop-boy\\n56", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "In the village, they are on a perfect\\nequality, which love delights in, and\\nwithout any coquetry the happy, af-\\nfectionate nature of woman flows out\\nIn this pretty gossip. The girls may\\nhave little beauty, yet plainly do they\\nestablish between them and the good\\nboy the most agreeable, confiding re-\\nlations, what with their fun and their\\nearnest, about Edgar, and Jonas, and\\nAlmira, and who was invited to the\\nparty, and who danced at the dancing-\\nschool, and when the singing-school\\nwould begin, and other nothings con-\\ncerning which the parties cooed. By\\nand by that boy wants a wife, and very\\ntruly and heartily will he know where\\nto find a sincere and sweet mate, with-\\nout any risk such as Milton deplores\\nas incident to scholars and great men.\\nS7", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Love\\nI have been told that my philosophy\\nis unsocial, and, that in public dis-\\ncourses, my reverence for the intellect\\nmakes me unjustly cold to the personal\\nrelations. But now I almost shrink\\nat the remembrance of such disparag-\\ning words. For persons are love s\\nworld, and the coldest philosopher\\ncannot recount the debt of the young\\nsoul wandering here in nature to the\\npower of love, without being tempted\\nto unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught\\nderogatory to the social instincts. For,\\nthough the celestial rapture falling out\\nof heaven seizes only upon those of\\ntender age, and although a beauty over-\\npowering all analysis or comparison,\\nand putting us quite beside ourselves,\\nwe can seldom see after thirty years,\\nyet the remembrance of these visions", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Love\\noutlasts all other remembrances, and\\nis a wreath of flowers on the oldest\\nbrows. But here is a strange fact it\\nmay seem to many men in revising\\ntheir experience, that they have no\\nfairer page in their life s book than\\nthe delicious memory of some passages\\nwherein affection contrived to give a\\nwitchcraft surpassing the deep attrac-\\ntion of its own truth to a parcel of\\naccidental and trivial circumstances.\\nIn looking backward, they may find\\nthat several things which were not\\nthe charm, have more reality to this\\ngroping memory than the charm itself\\nwhich embalmed them. But be our\\nexperience in particulars what it may,\\nno man ever forgot the visitations of\\nthat power to his heart and brain,\\nwhich created all things new which\\n59", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Love\\nwas the dawn in him of music, poetry,\\nand art which made the face of nature\\nradiant with purple light the morning\\nand the night varied enchantments\\nwhen a single tone of one voice could\\nmake the heart beat, and the most\\ntrivial circumstance, associated with\\none form, is put in the amber of\\nmemory when we became all eye\\nwhen one was present, and all memory\\nwhen one was gone when the youth\\nbecomes a watcher of windows, and\\nstudious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon,\\nor the wheels of a carriage when no\\nplace is too solitary, and none too\\nsilent for him who has richer com-\\npany and sweeter conversation in his\\nnew thoughts, than any old friends,\\nthough best and purest, can give him j\\nfor, the figures, the motions, the words\\n60", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nof the beloved object are not like other\\nimages written in water, but, as Plu-\\ntarch said, enamelled in fire, and\\nmake the study of midnight.\\nThou are not gone being gone, where e er\\nthou art.\\nThou leav st in him thy watchful eyes, in\\nhim thy loving heart.\\nIn the noon and the afternoon of\\nlife, we still throb at the recollection\\nof days when happiness was not happy\\nenough, but must be drugged with the\\nrelish of pain and fear for he touched\\nthe secret of the matter, who said of\\nlove,\\nAll other pleasures are not worth its pains\\nand when the day was not long enough,\\nbut the night too must be consumed\\nin keen recollections when the head\\n6i", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Love\\nboiled all night on the pillow with\\nthe generous deed it resolved on\\nwhen the moonlight was a pleasing\\nfever, and the stars were letters, and\\nthe flowers ciphers, and the air was\\ncoined into song when all business\\nseemed an impertinence, and all the\\nmen and women running to and fro\\nin the streets, mere pictures.\\nThe passion remakes the world for\\nthe youth. It makes all things alive\\nand significant. Nature grows con-\\nscious. Every bird on the boughs of\\nthe tree sings now to his heart and\\nsoul. Almost the notes are articulate.\\nThe clouds have faces, as he looks on\\nthem. The trees of the forest, the\\nwaving grass, and the peeping flowers\\nhave grown intelligent and almost he\\nfears to trust them with the secret\\n6-2", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nwhich they seem to Invite. Yet nature\\nsoothes and sympathises. In the green\\nsolitude he finds a dearer home than\\nwith men.\\nFo^mtain heads and pathless groves,\\nlaces which pale passion loves,\\n.^loonlight walks, when all the fowls\\nAre safely housed, save bats and owls,\\nA midnight bell, a passing groan.\\nThese are the sounds we feed upon.\\nBehold there In the wood the fine\\nmadman He is a palace of sweet\\nsounds and sights he dilates he is\\ntwice a man he walks with arms\\nakimbo he soliloquises he accosts\\nthe grass and the trees he feels the\\nblood of the violet, the clover and the\\nlily in his veins and he talks with\\nthe brook that wets his foot.\\n63", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Love\\nThe causes that have sharpened his\\nperceptions of natural beauty have\\nmade him love music and verse. It is\\na fact often observed, that men have\\nwritten good verses under the inspira-\\ntion of passion, who cannot write well\\nunder any other circumstances.\\nThe like force has the passion over\\nall his nature. It expands the senti-\\nment it makes the clown gentle, and\\ngives the coward heart. Into the most\\npitiful and abject it will infuse a heart\\nand courage to defy the world, so only\\nit have the countenance of the beloved\\nobject. In giving him to another, it\\nstill more gives him to himself. He is\\na new man, with new perceptions, new\\nand keener purposes, and a religious\\nsolemnity of character and aims. He\\ndoes not longer appertain to his family\\n64", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Love\\nand society. He is somewhat. He is\\na person. He is a soul.\\nAnd here let us examine a little\\nnearer the nature of that influence\\nwhich is thus potent over the human\\nyouth. Let us approach and admire\\nBeauty, whose revelation to man we\\nnow celebrate, beauty, welcome as\\nthe sun wherever it pleases to shine,\\nwhich pleases everybody with it and\\nwith themselves. Wonderful is its\\ncharm. It seems sufl[icient to itself.\\nThe lover cannot paint his maiden to\\nhis fancy poor and solitary. Like a\\ntree in flower, so much soft, budding,\\ninforming loveliness is society for\\nitself, and she teaches his eye why\\nBeauty was ever painted with Loves\\nand Graces attending her steps. Her\\nexistence makes the world rich.", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Love\\nThough she extrudes all other per-\\nsons from his attention as cheap and\\nunworthy, yet she indemnifies him by\\ncarrying out her own being into some-\\nwhat impersonal, large, mundane, so\\nthat the maiden stands to him for a\\nrepresentative of all select things and\\nvirtues. For that reason the lover sees\\nnever personal resemblances in his mis-\\ntress to her kindred or to others. His\\nfriends find in her a likeness to her\\nmother, or her sisters, or to persons\\nnot of her blood. The lover sees no\\nresemblance except to summer even-\\nings and diamond mornings, to rain-\\nbows and the song of birds.\\nBeauty is ever that divine thing the\\nancients esteemed it. It is, they said,\\nthe flowering of virtue. Who can\\nanalyse the nameless charm which\\n66", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nglances from one and another face\\nand form We are touched with\\nemotions of tenderness and compla-\\ncency, but we cannot find whereat this\\ndainty emotion, this wandering gleam\\npoints. It is destroyed for the imag-\\nination by any attempt to refer it to\\norganisation. Nor does it point to\\nany relations of friendship or love that\\nsociety knows and has, but, as it seems\\nto me, to a quite other and unattainable\\nsphere, to relations of transcendent\\ndelicacy and sweetness, a true fairy-\\nland to what roses and violets hint\\nand foreshow. We cannot get at\\nbeauty. Its nature is like opaline\\ndoves -neck lustres, hovering and ev-\\nanescent. Herein it resembles the\\nmost excellent things, which all have\\nthis rainbow character, defying all at-\\n7", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Love\\ntempts at appropriation and use. What\\nelse did Jean Paul Richter signify, when\\nhe said to music, Away away thou\\nspeakest to me of things which in all\\nmy endless life I have found not, and\\nshall not find. The same fact may\\nbe observed in every work of the plas-\\ntic arts. The statue is then beautiful,\\nwhen it begins to be incomprehensible,\\nwhen it is passing out of criticism, and\\ncan no longer be defined by compass\\nand measuring wand, but demands an\\nactive imagination to go with it, and\\nto say what it is in the act of doing.\\nThe God or hero of the sculptor is\\nalways represented in a transition from\\nthat which is representable to the\\nsenses, to that which is not. Then\\nfixst it ceases to be a stone. The\\nsame remark holds of painting. And\\n68", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nof poetry, the success is not attained\\nwhen it lulls and satisfies, but when it\\nastonishes and fires us with new en-\\ndeavours after the unattainable. Con-\\ncerning it, Landor inquires whether\\nit is not to be referred to some purer\\nstate of sensation and existence.\\nSo must it be with personal beauty,\\nwhich love worships. Then first is it\\ncharming and itself, when it dissatisfies\\nus with any end when it becomes a\\nstory without an end when it suggests\\ngleams and visions, and not earthly\\nsatisfactions when it seems\\nToo bright and good.\\nFor human nature s daily food\\nwhen it makes the beholder feel his\\nunworthiness, when he cannot feel his\\nright to it, though he were Caesar;\\n69", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Love\\nhe cannot feel more right to it, than\\nto the firmament and the splendours\\nof a sunset.\\nHence arose the saying If I love\\nyou, what is that to you We say\\nso, because we feel that what we love,\\nis not in your will, but above it. It is\\nthe radiance of you and not you. It\\nis that which you know not in your-\\nself, and can never know.\\nThis agrees well with that high phi-\\nlosophy of Beauty which the ancient\\nwriters delighted in for they said, that\\nthe soul of man, embodied here on\\nearth, went roaming up and down in\\nquest of that other world of its own,\\nout of which it came into this, but was\\nsoon stupefied by the light of the nat-\\nural sun, and unable to see any other\\nobjects than those of this world, which\\n70", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nare but shadows of real things. There-\\nfore, the Deity sends the glory of youth\\nbefore the soul, that it may avail itself\\nof beautiful bodies as aids to its recol-\\nlection of the celestial good and fair\\nand the man, beholding such a person\\nin the female sex, runs to her, and finds\\nthe highest joy in contemplating the\\nform, movement, and intelligence of\\nthis person, because it suggests to him\\nthe presence of that which indeed is\\nwithin the beauty, and the cause of the\\nbeauty.\\nIf, however, from too much convers-\\ning with material objects, the soul was\\ngross, and misplaced its satisfaction in\\nthe body, it reaped nothing but sorrow\\nbody being unable to fulfil the promise\\nwhich beauty holds out but if, accept-\\ning the hint of these visions and sugges-\\n71", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "-m Love\\nAJ\\ntions which beauty makes to his mind,\\nthe soul passes through the body, and\\nfails to admire strokes of character, and\\nthe lovers contemplate one another in\\ntheir discourses and their actions, then\\nthey pass to the true palace of Beauty,\\nmore and more inflame their love of\\nit, and by this love extinguishing the\\nbase affection, as the sun puts out the\\nfire by shining on the hearth, they be-\\ncome pure and hallowed. By conver-\\nsation with that which is in itself ex-\\ncellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just,\\nthe lover comes to a warmer love of\\nthese nobilities, and a quicker appre-\\nhension of them. Then, he passes\\nfrom loving them in one, to lov-\\ning them in all, and so is the one\\nbeautiful soul only the door through\\nwhich he enters to the society of all\\n72", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Love^\\ntrue and pure souls. In the particular\\nsociety of his mate, he attains a clearer\\nsight of any spot, any taint, which her\\nbeauty has contracted from this world,\\nand is able to point it out, and this with\\nmutual joy that they are now able with-\\nout offense to indicate blemishes and\\nhinderances in each other, and give to\\neach all help and comfort in curing the\\nsame. And, beholding in many souls\\nthe traits of the divine beauty, and\\nseparating in each soul that which is\\ndivine from the taint which they have\\ncontracted in the world, the lover\\nascends ever to the highest beauty, to\\nthe love and knowledge of the Divinity,\\nby steps on this ladder of created souls.\\nSomewhat like this have the truly\\nwise told us of love in all ages. The\\ndoctrine is not old, nor is it new. If", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Love\\nPlato, Plutarch, and Apuleius taught it,\\nso have Petrarch, Angelo, and Milton.\\nIt awaits a truer unfolding in opposi-\\ntion and rebuke to that subterranean\\nprudence which presides at marriages\\nwith words that take hold of the upper\\nworld, while one eye is eternally boring\\ndown into the cellar, so that its gravest\\ndiscourse has ever a slight savour of\\nhams and powdering-tubs. Worst,\\nwhen the snout of this sensualism in-\\ntrudes into the education of young\\nwomen, and withers the hope and\\naffection of human nature, by teach-\\ning that marriage signifies nothing but\\na housewife s thrift, and that woman s\\nlife has no other aim.\\nBut this dream of love, though\\nbeautiful, is only one scene in our\\nplay. In the procession of the soul\\n74", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nfrom within outward, it enlarges its\\ncircles ever, like the pebble thrown\\ninto the pond, or the light proceeding\\nfrom an orb. The rays of the soul\\nalight first on things nearest, on every\\nutensil and toy, on nurses and domes-\\ntics, on the house and yard and pas-\\nsengers, on the circle of household ac-\\nquaintance, on politics, and geography,\\nand history. But by the necessity of\\nour constitution, things are ever group-\\ning themselves according to higher or\\nmore interior laws. Neighbourhood,\\nsize, numbers, habits, persons, lose by\\ndegrees their power over us. Cause\\nand effect, real affinities, the longing\\nfor harmony between the soul and the\\ncircumstance, the high progressive\\nidealising instinct, these predominate\\nlater, and ever the step backward from\\n75", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "Love\\nthe higher to the lower relations is im-\\npossible. Thus even love^ which is\\nthe deification of persons, must be-\\ncome more impersonal every day. Of\\nthis at first it gives no hint. Little\\nthink the youth and maiden who are\\nglancing at each other across crowded\\nrooms, with eyes so full of mutual in-\\ntelligence, of the precious fruit long\\nhereafter to proceed from this new\\nquite external stimulus. The work\\nof vegetation begins first in the irri-\\ntability of the bark and leaf-buds.\\nFrom exchanging glances, they ad-\\nvance to acts of courtesy, of gallantry,\\nthen to fiery passion, to plighting troth\\nand marriage. Passion beholds its ob-\\nject as a perfect unit. The soul is\\nwholly embodied, and the body is\\nwholly ensouled.\\n76", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Love\\nHer pure and eloquent blood\\nSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,\\nThat one might almost say her body thought.\\nRomeo, if dead, should be cut up into\\nlittle stars to make the heavens fine.\\nLife, with this pair, has no other aim,\\nasks no more than Juliet than\\nRomeo. Night, day, studies, talents,\\nkingdoms, religion, are all contained\\nin this form full of soul, in this soul\\nwhich is all form. The lovers delight\\nin endearments, in avowals of love, in\\ncomparisons of their regards. When\\nalone, they solace themselves with the\\nremembered image of the other. Does\\nthat other see the same star, the same\\nmelting cloud, read the same book,\\nfeel the same emotion that now de-\\nlight me They try and weigh their\\naffection, and adding up all costly ad-\\nL.ofc.", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "Love\\nvantages, friends, opportunities, proper-\\nties, exult in discovering that willingly,\\njoyfully, they would give all as a\\nransom for the beautiful, the beloved\\nhead, not one hair of which shall be\\nharmed. But the lot of humanity is\\non these children. Danger, sorrow,\\nand pain arrive to them, as to all.\\nLove prays. It makes covenants with\\nEternal Power, in behalf of this dear\\nmate. The union which is thus af-\\nfected, and which adds a new value to\\nevery atom in nature, for it trans-\\nmutes every thread throughout the\\nwhole web of relation into a golden\\nray, and bathes the soul in a new and\\nsweeter element, is yet a temporary\\nstate. Not always can flowers, pearls,\\npoetry, protestations, nor even home\\nin another heart, content the awful\\n1", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nsoul that dwells in clay. It arouses\\nItself at last from these endearments,\\nas toys, and puts on the harness, and\\naspires to vast and universal aims.\\nThe soul which is in the soul of each,\\ncraving for a perfect beatitude, detects\\nincongruities, defects, and dispropor-\\ntion in the behaviour of the other.\\nHence arises surprise, expostulation,\\nand pain. Yet that which drew them\\nto each other was signs of loveliness,\\nsigns of virtue and these virtues are\\nthere, however eclipsed. They appear\\nand reappear, and continue to attract\\nbut the regard changes, quits the sign,\\nand attaches to the substance. This\\nrepairs the wounded affection. Mean-\\ntime, as life wears on, it proves a\\ngame of permutation and combination\\nof all possible positions of the parties,\\n79", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "Love\\nto extort all the resources of each,\\nand acquaint each with the whole\\nstrength and weakness of the other.\\nFor, it is the nature and end of this\\nrelation, that they should represent the\\nhuman race to each other. All that\\nis in the world, which is or ought to\\nbe known, is cunningly wrought into\\nthe texture of man, of woman.\\nThe person love does to us fit.\\nLike manna, has the taste of all in it.\\nThe world rolls the circumstances\\nvary, every hour. All the angels that\\ninhabit this temple of the body appear\\nat the windows, and all the gnomes\\nand vices also. By all the virtues,\\nthey are united. If there be virtue,\\nall the vices are known as such they\\nconfess and flee. Their once flaming\\n80", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Love^\\nregard is sobered by time in either\\nbreast, and losing in violence what it\\ngains in extent, it becomes a thorough\\ngood understanding. They resign each\\nother, without complaint, to the good\\noffices which man and woman are\\nseverally appointed to discharge in time,\\nand exchange the passion which once\\ncould not lose sight of its object, for\\na cheerful, disengaged furtherance,\\nwhether present or absent, of each\\nother s designs. At last they discover\\nthat all which at first drew them to-\\ngether those once sacred features,\\nthat magical play of charms was\\ndeciduous, had a prospective end, like\\nthe scaffolding by which the house\\nwas built and the purification of the\\nintellect and the heart, from year to\\nyear, is the real marriage, foreseen and\\n8i", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ES^\\nLove\\nprepared from the first, and wholly\\nabove their consciousness. Looking at\\nthese aims with which two persons, a\\nman and a woman, so variously and\\ncorrelatively gifted, are shut up in one\\nhouse to spend in the nuptial society\\nforty or fifty years, I do not wonder\\nat the emphasis with which the heart\\nprophesies this crisis from early in-\\nfancy, at the profuse beauty with\\nwhich the instincts deck the nuptial\\nbower, and nature and intellect and\\nart emulate each other in the gifts and\\nthe melody they bring to the epithala-\\nmium.\\nThus are we put in training for a\\nlove which knows not sex, nor person,\\nnor partiality, but which seeketh virtue\\nand wisdom everywhere, to the end of\\nincreasing virtue and wisdom. We are", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Love\\nby nature observers, and thereby learn-\\ners. That is our permanent state. But\\nwe are often made to feel that our\\naffections are but tents of a night.\\nThough slowly and with pain, the\\nobjects of the affections change, as\\nthe objects of thought do, there are\\nmoments when the affections rule and\\nabsorb the man, and make his happi-\\nness dependent on a person or persons.\\nBut in health the mind is presently\\nseen again, its overarching vault,\\nbright with galaxies of immutable\\nlights, and the warm loves and fears\\nthat swept over us as clouds, must lose\\ntheir infinite character, and blend with\\nGod, to attain their own perfection.\\nBut we need not fear that we can lose\\nanything by the progress of the soul.\\nThe soul may be trusted to the end.\\n83", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "A-J\\nLove\\nThat which is so beautiful and attract-\\nive as these relations, must be suc-\\nceeded and supplanted only by what\\nis more beautiful, and so on for\\never.\\nTHE END.\\nm 31934", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2583", "width": "1585", "jp2-path": "friendshiplove00emer_0100.jp2"}}