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" Alas, it is so easy to screw one's self up into high and even higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight... "
Studies of a Biographer - Page 133
by Leslie Stephen - 1902
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834 ..., Volume 2

Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 410 pages
...altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars; easy for you, for me: but whither does it lead ? I dread always, To inanity and mere...
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo ..., Issue 25, Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 412 pages
...altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; easy for you, for me : but whither does it lead ? I dread always, To inanity and mere...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...the perilous altitudes of Transcendentalism, 'seeing nothing under him but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo Firmament sowing itself with daylight stars.' He never thinks it beneath his dignity to touch a point of minor morals, or to say...
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Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...the perilous altitudes of Transcendentalism, 'seeing nothing under him but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo Firmament sowing itself with daylight stars.' He never thinks it beneath his dignity to touch a point of minor morals, or to say...
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The Modern Review, Volume 4

1883 - 896 pages
...he said, to screw one's self, seeing nothing under one but " the everlasting snows of Hirnmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; " and though he longed " to see some concrete Thing, some Event, Man's Life, American...
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The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of ...

Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; easy for you, for me : but whither does it lead ? I dread always, To inanity and mere...
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Fresh Fields

John Burroughs - 1884 - 314 pages
...altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; easy for you, for me ; but whither does it lead ? I dread always, to inanity and mere...
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Fresh Fields

John Burroughs - 1885 - 388 pages
...even higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; easy for you, for me ; but whither does it lead ? I dread always, to inanity, and...
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Fresh fields. Author's ed

John Burroughs - 1885 - 390 pages
...even higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars ; easy for you, for me ; but whither does it lead ? I dread always, to inanity, and...
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The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a study

John Burroughs - 1895 - 308 pages
...altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himmalayah, the Earth shrinking to a Planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars; easy for you, for me; but whither does it lead? I dread always, to inanity and mere...
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