 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.  Works - Page 80by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1891 - 322 pages
...before, Asking to be combined. In 1836, Emerson in his " Nature," reiterated this grand prophecy : A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In 1867, science had gone so far that it could announce the Unity of Creation ; the absolute Order... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 pages
...shows its beauty in the flower. Nature is making towards humanity, and in humanity it finds itself. " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." ' The geologist, physicist, chemist, by discovering the laws of nature, do not bind unconnected phenomena... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...look out on this wondrous Dwelling-place of yours and mine, — with an ear for the Ewigen Melodien, which pipe in the winds round us, and utter themselves...take these lines, his own, of course, like so many wthers which he prefixed to his different essays, was printed in the year 1849, ten years before the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...look out on this wondrous Dwelling-place of yours and mine, — with an ear for the Ewigen Melodien, which pipe in the winds round us, and utter themselves...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." year 1849, ten years before the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species," twenty years and more... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...look out on this wondrous Dwelling-place of yours and mine, — with an ear for the Ewiyen Melodien, which pipe in the winds round us, and utter themselves...omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the roso ; And, striving to he man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." The copy of "Nature"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...AMERICAN. A LECTURE READ TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 317 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. r INTRODUCTION. age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - 1893 - 378 pages
...follows in the diary a slip of paper in Emerson's handwriting pasted upon the page, as follows : — " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."] " Monday, August 6. At Hillside to-day. Dine with Thoreau, and return at 3 PM to Temple Place and my... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 368 pages
...myth. Morality may not be possible in ant and bee and beaver and dog, but ethical principle is there. "Striving to be man the worm mounts through all the spires of form." Not that a man is recognized, and there is a conscious reach toward him, but because back of worm and... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 344 pages
...myth. Morality may not be possible in ant and bee and beaver and dog, but ethical principle is there. " Striving to be man the worm mounts through all the spires of form." Not that a man is recognized, and there is a conscious reach toward him, but because back of worm and... | |
 | 1894 - 444 pages
...lines: A subtle chain of countless rings The next uuto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens were it goes And speaks all languages the rose ; And striving...man the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. Throughout this treatise, as well as in his earlier addresses and essays, are scattered sentences and... | |
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