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" Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... "
Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 22
1896
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The Reinterpretation of American Literature: Some Contributions Toward the ...

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 . . . \...
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Educational Review, Volume 43

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...
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Educational Review, Volume 33

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...
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The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 63

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...
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The International Studio, Volume 41

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....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 87

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...
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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

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...
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Emerson and the Art of the Diary

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...
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Literature in America: An Illustrated History

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...
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American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

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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