 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848
...ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation...harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that T will sing themselves. Who can doubt, tnat poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
...ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation...close. The millions, that around us are' rushing into ^ife, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of ( foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must... | |
 | 1925
..."Perhaps the time will come," says Emerson, "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
 | Justin Winsor, Clarence F. Jewett - 1882
...heroic mind." He must study and guide the life of to-day, not overvaluing the methods of the past. " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. Neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three unities of Aristotle, nor the three kings of Cologne, nor the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginas
...ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation...foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be suug, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the... | |
 | 1883
...teachings of other lands, but that the sluggard intellect of this continent he. snid, " will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something Letter than mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
...ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation...into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains VOL. LF of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886
...nothing. We are to be units, walk on our own feet, think our own thoughts, and speak our own minds." " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." "No age should humbly follow the books or intellectual customs of the preceding age ; one's own view... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889
...nothing. We are to be units, walk on our own feet, think our own thoughts, and speak our own minds." " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." " No age should humbly follow the books or intellectual customs of the preceding age ; one's own view... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 páginas
...something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids,4 and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of 1 This oration was delivered in August, 1837, before the Cambridge chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,... | |
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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. 
