 | Wolfgang Kemp - 1992 - 530 páginas
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us." 256 The first people to try out a new technology always find out that the medium is the message. The... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 páginas
...we discover nature is deep. It is we who must enter, explore, and come to have some understanding. "We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us."9 Beginning as simply as possible, I want to suggest the various ways Walden reveals Walden Pond... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...wished his epiphanies to happen through facts, through sharp and actual experience with real things. "And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us," he wrote in Walden (97). In the spring of 1851 the evidence of that "instilling... | |
 | Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 páginas
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to all our conceptions. . . . Let... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...wished his epiphanies to happen through facts, through sharp and actual experience with real things. "And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us," he wrote in Walden (97). In the spring of 1851 the evidence of that "instilling... | |
 | Philip F. Gura - 2004 - 304 páginas
...writing Walden Thoreau had learned (as he so beautifully expressed it) that "we are able to comprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us," a more eloquent formulation of Johnson's notion that to know what the universe truly is, man must dismiss... | |
 | David E. Shi - 1996 - 410 páginas
..."entertain the true problems of life." In Walden (1854) he emphasized that "we are enabled to apprehend what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us." But Thoreau defined "reality" in a transcendental sense. He was willing to exchange facts for "vague... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 páginas
...trees, wind on our cheeks!' " As in those passages in Walden 's second chapter when Thoreau notes that "we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us, " we finally must read his confusion at the summit of Ktaadn as celebratory, an... | |
 | James C. Edwards - 2010 - 270 páginas
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instil ling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently... | |
 | Jane Frazier - 1999 - 150 páginas
...explain what the awareness of the earth can mean to the human, as he does in one segment from Walden: And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never had yet so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.30 Thoreau's... | |
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And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. 
