 We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where...  Complete Works - Page 121by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. *n 23. And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward forevermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 1 And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals... | |
 | William Williams - 1890 - 354 pages
...the Almighty saith, " Up and onward forevennore ! " We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will w£ rely on the new ; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 7. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing is more contemptible than the false. The... | |
 | William Williams (B. A.) - 1891 - 350 pages
...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward forevermore ! " We cannot stay amid the ruin*. Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk ever...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 7. Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing is more contemptible than the false. The... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruinа of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...and onward for evermore!" We cannot stay amid the ruina. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward f orevermore ! " We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1897 - 682 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 23. And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Newcomb - 1897 - 272 pages
...— Emerson. Think how worthless everything is after which men violently strain. — Marcus Aurelius. We sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, " Up and onward forevermore." — Emerson*. In the morning when thou risest unwillingly let this thought be present... | |
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