| Norman Foerster - 1928 - 296 pages
...individual, national. In the familiar, more explicitly national note of the following year, he declared, "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." Likewise, in the same address he exalted "everything which tends to insulate the individual . . . \... | |
| 1912 - 564 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. . . . Who can doubt that poetry will... | |
| 1907 - 630 pages
...New Englander stood outwith all judgment positive or negative, being himself nowise among the makers. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands" had not drawn to a close. Now, this being true of the intellect, it could hardly fail to hold of institutions... | |
| 1920 - 158 pages
...address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, delivered on August 31, 1837, is what I found: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . . Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry... | |
| 1910 - 510 pages
...under the influence of Europe as the easel pictures. Many years have passed since Emerson wrote : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of •other lands draws to a close." The "close" has not been reached yet, and it may take longer •than the generation prophesied by Dr. Bode.... | |
| 1901 - 972 pages
...searching for truth which is too high for the American nation. They think, as Emerson said, "опт days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning...are rushing into life .cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests.' And as the first necessary condition of such a change they seek a clear... | |
| Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...past forms, Emerson seems less the apostle of a new American literature than its anticipatory prophet: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he announced toward the beginning of "The American Scholar," concluding with a series of calls that... | |
| Lawrence Alan Rosenwald - 1988 - 176 pages
...one must have a place to stand in. No text creates more space than does Emerson's "American Scholar": Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. 155 The air of sovereign assertion, the apparent freedom not only from European influence but also... | |
| Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe," Emerson said, and he stirred those who heard him. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...the learning of other lands, draws to a close." "The American Scholar" explores one of the principal themes of Nature, that modern society has replaced... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...particularly Americans, are ready to slough off the past. Emerson writes in the first paragraph that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and in the last paragraph he predicts that "we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own... | |
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