 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy...  Modern Eloquence - Page 1079edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1878 - 412 pages
...paltry villages, — Strong in some hundred spearmen, — only great In that strange spell — a name." as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." Example of 'pure tone,' with lively median stress. 2. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 74 pages
...paltry villages, — Strong in some hundred spearmen, — only great In that strange spell — a name." as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." Example of 'pure tone,' with lively median stress. 2. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 282 pages
...arise before a man and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison. That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness...true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us what powers are wrapped up... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...arise before a man, and lead, him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison. That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavour to realise our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which, when it is valiantly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison, That which befits us, imbosomed ilroad, raises the credit of all the citizens. But enormous populati endeavour to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which, when it is valiantly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...hand out of all the wards of the prison. That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as wo are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor...true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers arc wrapped np... | |
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...abiding word for us, the word by which being dead he yet speaks to us, is this : " That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavour to realise our aspirations. Shall not the heart, which has received so much, trust the Power... | |
 | 1885 - 222 pages
...conditions, and is the only definition we have of freedom and power. That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and...true romance, which, when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 pages
...abiding word for us, the word by which being dead he yet speaks to us, is this : ' That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavour to realise our aspirations. Shall not the heart, which has received so much, trust the Power... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...be sage, And gay without frivolity,' Emerson had no doubt about his creed : ( That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavour to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power... | |
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