To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 284 pages
...sometimes sound like parodies of each other. Consider, for example, this line from the beginning of Nature. "But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars" (p. 9). Read without irony, the sentiment could be Lovecraft's, as it was also Frost's — to whom... | |
| William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 pages
...the stars as a metaphor for a realm that is hospitable because it is solitary: To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . .if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,... | |
| Jay Parini - 1997 - 294 pages
...from the wilderness bearing Truth; but that truth can only be found in nature: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. . . . But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars." So the pattern of self-imposed isolation... | |
| Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pages
...Allen in Waldo Emerson (New York: Viking, 1981), pp. 239-40; see L 7:232-33. 4"Tb go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society" (CW 1:8). '5I take the phrase "standard of excellence" from the passage in Nature which was inspired... | |
| Gyorgyi Voros - 1997 - 216 pages
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| Jay Parini - 1997 - 300 pages
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| 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...writer 2.With whom is Helen associated in line 14? 3.Who is Psyche? Passage 6 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heav enly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made... | |
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| Stefano Scoglio - 1998 - 276 pages
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| Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 pages
...you must cooperate with others in using a common language? It is Emerson, remember, who confesses: "I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me."18 I move on now to the idea of "work." "Work" is a key word in pragmatist writing from Emerson... | |
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