...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...the learning of other lands, draws to a close.' The speaker himself laid the foundations of the literature of his country. Emerson's own published writings,...

...generations of pedagogues, still survives in the literature books. I quote from the first paragraph: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . . Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry...

...Scholar Emerson says, "The eyes of a man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead." And again: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed upon the sere remains of foreign harvests." Emerson's doctrine of self-reliance, although "sicklied...

...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...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. I" Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close....

...the new Thomas Jefferson, though he had fore-runners. In the first paragraph Emerson proclaims : ' ' Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. "We cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." Thus the title of the oration, The...

...conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." It is almost impossible to overrate the importance and the extent of Emerson's thoroughly wholesome...

...society at Harvard. At the outset, as in the opening lines of Nature, he sounds the cry of freedom: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." Then he writes of the three great influences which surround the scholar — that of nature, that of...

...University prophesied that the day would come "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than exertions of mechanical skill." Mr. Lewisohn thinks that prophesy has not yet come true. This criticism...

...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...remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, I that must be sung, that will sing them- , selves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead...

..."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...