 A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.  Works - Page 74by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ''A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. ''Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...hands on the sword, or the pencil or the trowel. — WORSHIP + A. man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer, and shall pass into...Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganisations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? 'A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. 'Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? "j^jnan is a god in niinp When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial fore; of spirit? "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | 1895 - 466 pages
...beneath the stars ! " Ada looked down at her rose. " I believe grass is better than roses," she said. C. "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise." — Emerson. One Friday Afternoon. , By ELEANOR ROOT, Galesburg, 111. 1WAS thinking wearily of the... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...DISORDERING OF THE SENSES "We distrust and deny inwardly," Emerson said, "our sympathy with nature," but "infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." 4 Or in unmistakably Coleridgean terms, "Few adult persons can see nature. . . . The lover of nature... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 pages
...the chant of the Orphic poet in the final chapter of Nature: "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...gently as we awake from dreams. Now, the world would be in276 sane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
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