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 133by Leslie Stephen - 1902Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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