 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
 | Evan Carton - 1985 - 312 pages
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 | Steven E. Kagle - 1986 - 192 pages
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 | Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 pages
...enjoy an original relation to the universe?"71 Emerson suggests how to do this; begin with solitude: But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...is excerpted from Essays (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847), pp. 322-33. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - 1987 - 326 pages
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 | Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 pages
...first major essay should define the conditions for the procurement of solitude: 'To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.' As Emily Dickinson puts it, 'the soul selects her own society/Then shuts the door.' No single sentence... | |
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