 Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting the fashions, the education, the religion of society,...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 231by Harriet Martineau - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often ! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often ! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...observatory, cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind, which as yet no man has thought of a* such, — watching days and months, sometimes, for...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often ! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...catalogue the stars with the praise of all men, and, the results being splendid and useful, honour is sure. But he, in his private observatory, cataloguing...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept — how often ! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...sure. But he, in his private observatory, cataloguing ooscure and nebulous stars of the TiiiTna.ii mind, which as yet no man has thought of as such,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often ! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...private observatory, cataloguing obscure and nebuIons stars of the human mind, which as yet no man hns thought of as such, — watching days and months,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept — how often ! — poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of f treading the old road,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...the stars with the praise of all men, and, the results being splendid and useful, honor is sure. But1 he, in his private observatory, cataloguing obscure...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept — how often ! — poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...private observatory, cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind, which as yet no man lias thought of as such, — watching days and months,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept — how often ! — poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside. Long he must stammep.in his speech ; often forego the living for the dead. /Worse yet, he must accept — how often ! — • poverty and solitudg) For the ease and pleasure of treading the old... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, — how often ! poverty arid solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road,... | |
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