 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...  Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses - Page 80by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - 103 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1845 - 458 pages
...does an angel seem to 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...yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Shall not the heart that has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives 1 May it not quit... | |
 | 1845 - 460 pages
...does an angel seem to 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...yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Shall not the heart that has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1845 - 332 pages
...does an angel seem to 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 endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which,... | |
 | 1905 - 880 pages
...spirit " Emerson's 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 realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart, which has received so much, trust the Power... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...I intend for thee : Eemember ! " Examples of ' pure qualify.' 1. " That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and...courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." Example of 'pure tone,' with lively, median ttrett. 2. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since... | |
 | 1866 - 570 pages
...as immense and enthralling, as ever they seemed in the ecstatic days of passion. Truly says Emerson, "The life of man is the true" romance, which, when...the imagination " a higher joy than any fiction." Let the novelists look up to their great prototype, who — the master of the European mind when this... | |
 | 1866 - 870 pages
...immense and enthralling, as ever they seemed in the ecstatic days of passion. Truly says Emerson, " The life of man is the true " romance, which, when...the imagination " a higher joy than any fiction." Let the novelists look up to their great prototype, who — the master of the European mind when this... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pages
...shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ? " — Miss Greenwell. " That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder...conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than ILLUSTRATIONS. — INFLECTIONS. 217 any fiction. All around us, what powers are wrapped up undtr the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pages
...In that strange spell — a name." Examples of 'pure quality.' 1. "That which befits us, imbosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and...courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations." Example of 'pure tone' with lively median »tre»s. 2. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1873 - 400 pages
...\' Jages, — Strong in some hundred spearmen, — only great In that strange spell — a name." der 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... | |
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