 | Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 pages
...only what a "poet" can make of what he sees in nature but how relative and variable is what we see.12 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pages
..."Experience" (1844) Emerson wrote the beautiful "dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue."74 In "Illusions" (1857) he wrote even more... | |
 | Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 380 pages
...which go upward and out of sight. . . . Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods, like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Martha Saxton - 1995 - 462 pages
...demonstrating remarkable insight, not just a facility for narration. The opening inscription is Emerson's: "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and 274 each shows us only what lies in its... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...lenses of our temperaments and moods. "Life," Emerson wrote in his great essay "Experience" (1844), "is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus."... | |
 | Graham Parkes - 1994 - 514 pages
...train of moods" in the essay "Experience": Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world in their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1997 - 405 pages
...was published by A. K Loring of Boston in December 1864 12 The motto from Emerson's "Experience" was "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pages
...words that she would title the book Moods, inspired by Emerson's essay "Experience," where he writes: "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its focus... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1997 - 405 pages
...was published by AK Loring of Boston in December 1864. 12. The motto from Emerson's "Experience" was "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own... | |
 | Joel Pfister, Nancy Schnog - 1997 - 356 pages
...links her subject directly to Emerson by opening her novel with an epigraph drawn from "Experience": "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own... | |
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. 
