 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...the shop, the plow, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets 5 sing ; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench. 41. This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith,0 Burns,0 10 Cowper,0 and, in a newer time, of Goethe,0... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...the plow, and the leger," are phases of the "like cause by which light undulates and poets sing," and "one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench." This is the difficult task. The soil is hard and the hand of the tiller often unskilled, but the seed is... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast' with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger, referred to the. like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 344 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed and with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 pages
...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing; — and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany...and lumberroom, but has form and order; there is no trine, there is no puzzle, but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...and the shop, the plow, and the ledger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets s no with various success. In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks... | |
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... suburbs and extremities of Nature ; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law ; and the shop, the plough, and the ledger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing ; —... 
