 A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form INTRODUCTION.  Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Página 7de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 376 páginasVisualização parcial - Sobre este livro
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...around to the detriment of other people's originality. You remember the famous Emersonian couplet,— " And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." This is the keystone of Conway's claim that Emerson — not Darwin — first broached the idea of evolution.... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1891 - 322 páginas
...before, Asking to be combined. In 1836, Emerson in his " Nature," reiterated this grand prophecy : A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In 1867, science had gone so far that it could announce the Unity of Creation ; the absolute Order... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 páginas
...shows its beauty in the flower. Nature is making towards humanity, and in humanity it finds itself. " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." ' The geologist, physicist, chemist, by discovering the laws of nature, do not bind unconnected phenomena... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 páginas
...AMERICAN. A LECTURE READ TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 317 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. r INTRODUCTION. age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...which doth only do, but not know." This is omitted in after editions, and in its place we read : — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." The copy of "Nature" from which I take these lines, his own, of course, like so many wthers which he... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 páginas
...which doth only do, but not know." This is omitted in after editions, and in its place we read : — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." year 1849, ten years before the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species," twenty years and more... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 páginas
...which doth only do, but not know." This is omitted in after editions, and in its place we read : — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." The copy of "Nature" from which I take these lines, his own, of course, like so many others which he... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...which doth only do, but not know." This is omitted in after editions, and in its place we read: — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." The copy of "Nature" from which I take these lines, his own, of course, like so many others which he... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 páginas
...which doth only do, but not know." This is omitted in after editions, and in its place we read : — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the roso ; And, striving to he man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." The copy of "Nature"... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - 1893 - 378 páginas
...follows in the diary a slip of paper in Emerson's handwriting pasted upon the page, as follows : — " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."] " Monday, August 6. At Hillside to-day. Dine with Thoreau, and return at 3 PM to Temple Place and my... | |
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