 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
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pàgines
...[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 - 460 pàgines
...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 - 690 pàgines
...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 - 254 pàgines
...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 - 284 pàgines
...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 - 294 pàgines
...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 - 310 pàgines
...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 - 264 pàgines
...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 - 716 pàgines
...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 - 468 pàgines
...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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