 ... 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 of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning...  Miscellanies - Page 71by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...last eighteen hundred years it has been in religion. We echo with joy the language of the orator. " Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp which now flames in our zenith, as astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that T will sing themselves. Who can doubt, tnat poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are' rushing into ^ife, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of ( foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in 'the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall .one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a now age, as the star in tlie constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
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