...scholars idle times." When the Ametican could read God directly in nature and experience, the hour was "too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Another person who showered praise on Whitman was William O'Connor, whose Harrington appeared that...

...experience with others. All art can function like the books Emerson describes in "The American Scholar": "Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our step to the East again, where the dawn is" (28). As Elizabeth Dunn summarizes: "An initial inspiration...

...Shakespearized now for two hundred years. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments . . . when he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Fssays and Lectures, 58. But the idea is older than Emerson; a century before, Edward Young had written...

...of reading, — so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps...

...contemporaries. As he wrote in "The American Scholar," "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."20 Of course, Emerson's God was not the God of the theologians, but an immanent reality always...

...that he read for what he termed "lustres." Moreover, even for the scholar, he thought books were for idle times: "When he can read God directly, the hour...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings," Emerson writes in "The American Scholar." "But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,...

...Perhaps he recalled something Emerson had written : "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Could this be the same Emerson, old and weary and smothered in cotton-wool by friends, who worshipped...

...must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read 163 God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings" (1:57).46 Emerson here, in an address later titled "The American Scholar," implies a new instructive...

...believers, that religion is innate? Does a thread run through all things, or is all random and chaos? Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were...

...beliefs, only narrow interpretations of them" (122-23). 19. Compare Emerson in "The American Scholar": "When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings" (89). 20. His other items of baggage included his plant press, a few toilet articles, a change of underwear,...