 | 1900 - 600 pages
...science next felt its impulse, and, last of all, literature was born. Emerson hailed it (in 1837) " as the sign of an indestructible instinct." " Perhaps the time is already come," he says, " when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from under its iron lids and fill... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an...postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skilL Our day of dependence, oar long apprenticeship to the learning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...a friendly sign of the survival of the love of lette*6 amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Pers japs the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time has already come when it ought to be and will be something else; when 'the sluggard intellect of this... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 522 pages
...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words : — " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 492 pages
...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words : — " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1902 - 400 pages
...bugle call of 1837 : "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . The sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids." Whitman's later work, and especially his prose, often expresses in inspiring fashion the exultant vigor,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an...postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an...postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning... | |
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Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... 
