 | Robert Marion La Follette - Inventors - 1906 - 532 pages
...the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, OUT long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - Painters - 1907 - 442 pages
...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance represents a singular combination of fallacy and truth. For in the kingdom of thought,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...Heavy eyelids. 2 Years during which a youth is bound out to learn a trade. ESSAYS OF EMKRSON — 3 33 other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around...be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt 5 that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - Painters - 1907 - 428 pages
...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign [47] harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - American literature - 1907 - 392 pages
...Emerson felt he could not ignore even so shrill and vulgar a response to his famous bugle call of 1837 : "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . The sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids." Whitman's later work, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - Painters - 1907 - 420 pages
...resources of American painting were fertilised by foreign influence. For Emerson's doctrine, that " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close," had been put to the test and found wanting. It could arouse a motive, and a good one; but not provide... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - Drama - 1909 - 240 pages
...lids, and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, and one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? " THE DRAMA OF DEMOCRACY And in concluding his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that -STCUh-d iis are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...lids and fill the postponed expectation 15 of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, 20 actions, arise that must be sunar. that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poeuy will revive... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character - 1911 - 148 pages
...the courts of great ai ^iis or princes. They were also known as Provencal minstrels. 4 Heavy lids. mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, caniot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, s that must be... | |
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Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... 
