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" Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. It is so bad then? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind? Do we fear lest we should outsee nature and God, and drink truth dry? I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement... "
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 7
edited by - 1999 - 280 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...citation,—but »' importe—the fact will show that we have authority to back us, at any rate) — " Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness, ' Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.' Is it so bad then ? Light is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind? Do we fear lest...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness— " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness:— " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad, then? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...? We, it seems, are critical ; we are embarrassed with second thoughts ; we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists...unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...second thoughts; we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists; we axe lined with eyes; we see with our feet; the time is...unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...We, it seems, are critical ; we are embarrassed with second thoughts ; •we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists...unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." It is so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad, then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind? Do we fear...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...infected with Hamlet's unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'ei with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad then ? Sight is the last thing to be pitied, ( Would we be blind ? Do we fear...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...reflective. I deny not, however, that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced. Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must...unhappiness, — " Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Is it so bad thenl Sight is the last thing to be pitied. Would we be blind ? Do we fear lest...
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