Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2341897Full view - About this book
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1885 - 556 pages
...should know what God and man is," Emerson had put it in this wise : — " Thorough a thousand voices I Spoke the universal dame : 'Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am.'" The reference, in " Bacchus," to the ascent of life from form to form, still remains incomparable for... | |
| Richard Heber Newton - Apologetics - 1886 - 360 pages
...? The unity of Nature assures us that the Sphinx was right when she whispered to our great seer : " Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." We know now that the most distant stars are built up out of the same elements which constitute our... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1888 - 584 pages
...flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave; She stood Monadoe's head, Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame: "Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." THE INTEBPBETATION. The negative side of man's spirit as represented by average humanity is dull, stupid... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...and the Divinity School Address, can almost say of Emerson what he makes the Sphinx say of herself -. Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am. These three essays take up about one-third of the first volume of his collected works, which are eleven... | |
| Julian Hawthorne, William Leonard Lemmon - American literature - 1891 - 378 pages
...She flowered in blossoms red ; She flowed into a foaming wave ; She stood Monadnoc's head. Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame ; "Who...telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." Write the thought of the poem in your own language. If you do this carefully, you will answer many... | |
| Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - Education - 1893 - 378 pages
...depth of thought by these searching inquiries : — THE SPHINX'S QUESTIONS, WITH PSYCHE'S ANSWERS. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame...telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am." EMERSON. COHCOBD, May, 1848. " Spirit displays through Nature's frame, Flame letters of the First Man's... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 pages
...all, I should know what God and man is, — the transcendental philosopher had written — Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am. The Laureate has told us We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. Emerson in... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 394 pages
...all, I should know what God and man is, — the transcendental philosopher had written — Through a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame : Who telleth one of my meanings, Is master of all I am. The Laureate has told us We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. Emerson in... | |
| Thomas Hill - Christian ethics - 1895 - 408 pages
...fields. The unity of human nature and of the universe is so great that Emerson's Sphinx declares, — " Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am." Thus, Tennyson also declares that, if he could but understand wholly the little weed in the cranny... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 844 pages
...and the Divinity School Address, can almost say of Emerson what he makes the Sphinx say of herselt : Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am. These three essavs take up about one-third of the first volume of his collected works, which are eleven... | |
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