 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1920 - 504 pages
...strings, Can make the wild blood start In its mystic springs. Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. 'Pass in, pass in, the angels say, 'In to the upper doors, 'Nor count compartments of the floors, 'But... | |
 | 1902 - 874 pages
...individuality and spontaneity. Emerson says, speaking of the poet: Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhyth and number, But leaving rule and pale forethought He shall aye climb For his rhyme. rule ; but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 pages
...however, seems to have used it — in "Merlin I" (1847) for example — without allusion or overtone: "He shall not his brain encumber / With the coil of rhythm and number" ( W, IX, 121). 14 ALL GREAT MEN COME OUT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES. This is a variation on something Goethe... | |
 | Judy Jo Small - 1990 - 284 pages
...chords rudely and hard, As with hammer or with mace; That they may render back Artful thunder, . . . He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. (120-21) Emerson's verse is correspondingly jagged, not infrequently reckless of rhythm and rhyme,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ridiculous. (1. 61-63) AA; AnAmPo; FaPON; FM; GN; NOBA; OxBA 33 Great is the art, Great be the manners, fend. And stretched out all the chimney's length....out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mati "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, (1. 27—34) 34 But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. 'Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, 'In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors, But... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...the brave; Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber 30 With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, 35 "In to the upper doors, . Nor count compartments of the floors,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...prophetic character of the poet, which makes his inspired message more important than his formal skill: He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. . . . mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. "Bacchus" speaks of the poetic frenzy which discloses... | |
 | Nigel Fabb - 2002 - 244 pages
...evidence for lineation). Here is an example from Emerson: Great is the art, 27 Great he the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; 30 But. leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye1 climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, "In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments... | |
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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, "In to the upper doors,... 
