 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 - Pàgina 194per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Sheila Kaye-Smith - 1927 - 340 pàgines
...thought he sounded conceited at first, but now I think the opposite. I like that bit about the stars — 'if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.' I always look at the stars when I am undressing at nights, and wishing I was alone. I like, too, to... | |
 | Lucius Adelno Sherman - 1925 - 372 pàgines
...furnish a significant illustration. This is the first paragraph of the work that first gained him fame: 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 had been made transparent with this design, to give... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pàgines
...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. I. NATURE To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 pàgines
...impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER ONE Mature 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,... | |
 | Milton R. Stern - 1991 - 224 pàgines
...light as a metaphor for the transcendent state of consciousness to be achieved in the new democracy. 1f a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . The stars awaken . . . reverence. . . . There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose... | |
 | Mary Loeffelholz - 1991 - 196 pàgines
...for idealization. She also denies what Emerson claims to be the necessary isolation of the poet's eye ("if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars"). For Emerson, a landscape may contain other human beings as farmers but scarcely other seers; in any... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pàgines
..."Nature," in 1836, Emerson revealed his preoccupation with solitude. The first chapter of "Nature" begins: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. ... In the woods, is perpetual youth."153 The hallmark preoccupations of Emersonian Transcendentalism... | |
 | Konrad Gross, Meinhard Winkgens - 1994 - 432 pàgines
...entpuppt. 14 Nicht von ungefähr gilt der erste Gedanke, den Emerson in Nature ausführt, den Sternen: "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. [...] Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are!" (Emerson 1903: 13). Vgl.... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1994 - 338 pàgines
...and Steele. Emerson played off this style, using it, for example, in the famous opening of "Nature": "To go into solitude a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society." Here he assumes, as natural, a way of talking that generalizes confidently about what "a man" needs... | |
 | Robert A. Garfinkle - 1997 - 364 pàgines
...your star charts and see what else you can star-hop to. 110 April Ursa Major: A Dipper round tripper 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. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,... | |
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