Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 403 pages of information about Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 403 pages of information about Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  Warren, John Collins, Transcendentalism and Temperance, 149.

  Warren, Judge, of New Bedford, 67.

  Warwick Castle, fire, 275.

  Washington City, addresses, 307. 
    (See Anti-Slavery, etc.)

  Waterville College, Adelphi Society, 135-142.

  Webster, Daniel: 
    E.B.  Emerson’s association with, 19;
    on Tudor, 28, 29;
    literary rank, 33;
    Seventh-of-March Speech, 303;
    times mentioned, 382.

  Weiss, John, Parker biography, 368.

  Wellington, Lord, seen by Emerson, 63, 64.

  Wesley, John, praise of, 306. 
    (See Methodism.)

  Western Messenger, poems in, 128.

  West India Islands, Edward B. Emerson’s death, 89.

  Westminster Abbey, Emerson’s visit, 63, 64. 
    (See Emerson’s Books,—­English Traits,—­England, etc.)

  Westminster Catechism, 298. 
    (See Calvinism, Religion, etc.)

  Whipple, Edwin Percy: 
    literary rank, 33;
    club, 223;
    on heredity, 389.

  White of Selborne, 228.

  Whitman, Walt: 
    his enumerations, 325, 326;
    journal, 344, 346.

  Wilberforce, William, funeral, 64.

  Will: 
    inspiration of, 289;
    power of, 290.

  Windermere, Lake, 70. 
    (See England.)

  Winthrop, Francis William, in college, 45.

  Wolfe, Charles, Burial of Moore, 416.

  Woman: 
    her position, 212, 213, 251;
    crossing a street, 364.

  Woman’s Club, 16.

  Words, Emerson’s favorite, 404, 405. 
    (See Emerson’s Poems,—­Days.)

  Wordsworth, William: 
    Emerson’s account, 63;
    early reception, Excursion, 92, 95;
    quoted, 96, 97;
    Tintern Abbey, 103;
    influence, 148, 150;
    poetic rank, 281, 321;
    on Immortality, 293, 392;
    popularity, 316;
    serenity, 335;
    study of nature, 337;
    times mentioned, 382;
    We are Seven, 393;
    prejudice against science, 401.

  Wotton, Sir Henry, quoted, 259.

  Yankee: 
    a spouting, 136;
    improve, 176;
    whittling, 364. 
    (See America, New England, etc.)

  Yoga, Hindoo idea, 397.

  Young, Brigham: 
    Utah, 264, 268;
    on preexistence, 391.

  Young, Edward, influence in New England, 16, 17.

  Zola, Emile, offensive realism, 326.

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