 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | 1903 - 1362 pages
...are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, — that man, instead of ascending through nature,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers... | |
 | 1901 - 1022 pages
...Everything with A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; And, striving to be man. the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In this last couplet he expressed integrally Darwin's doctrine of evolution many years before the "... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | 1879 - 1036 pages
...farthest brings: The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To... | |
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A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 
