To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,... Essays, Lectures and Orations - Стр. 194авторы: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - Страниц: 364Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - Страниц: 468
...[Given modern astronomy,] Who can be a Calvinist or who an Atheist[?]—2 From Emerson's "Nature" (1836) But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly... | |
| William Sheehan - 1995 - Страниц: 460
...lived and worked. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for whom Elizabeth Barnard had named her son, had once written: If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly... | |
| Roger S. Gottlieb - 1996 - Страниц: 690
...in my last moments is an infinite curiosity as to what is to follow." "NATURE" Ralph Waldo Emerson To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man,... | |
| William G. Rowland - 1996 - Страниц: 254
...solitary: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . .if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible.... | |
| Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - Страниц: 284
...sometimes sound like parodies of each other. Consider, for example, this line from the beginning of Nature. "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (p. 9). Read without irony, the sentiment could be Lovecraft's, as it was also Frost's — to whom... | |
| Jay Parini - 1997 - Страниц: 294
...The prophet comes in from the wilderness bearing Truth; but that truth can only be found in nature: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . . But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." So the pattern of self-imposed isolation... | |
| Joel Myerson - 1997 - Страниц: 310
...published by Gay Wilson Allen in Waldo Emerson (New York: Viking, 1981), pp. 239-40; see L 7:232-33. 4"Tb go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society" (CW 1:8). '5I take the phrase "standard of excellence" from the passage in Nature which was inspired... | |
| 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - Страниц: 264
...poem "To Helen". Its writer 2.With whom is Helen associated in line 14? 3.Who is Psyche? Passage 6 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much...him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heav enly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made... | |
| J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - Страниц: 716
...induce God to spare you one moment. Ralph Waldo Emerson SELECTIONS FROM NatUTC (1836) T\ CHAPTER I. o GO INTO SOLITUDE, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from soc1ety. I am not sol1tary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be... | |
| Morris Dickstein - 1998 - Страниц: 468
...you must cooperate with others in using a common language? It is Emerson, remember, who confesses: "I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me."18 I move on now to the idea of "work." "Work" is a key word in pragmatist writing from Emerson... | |
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