 ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness....  Essays - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...whose affections must now enter into his account. <I There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutral, godlike independence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...verdict. You must court him ; he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus lose all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 374 pages
...it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with iclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | Albert Edward Hamilton - 1925 - 390 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...whose affections must now enter into his account." I had read these words long before entering a classroom as a teacher. They rang true to my own adolescence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...i ou must court him : ne does not cgttrt you: But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...were clapped into jail by his conscious332 333 ness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with fclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that be could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with éclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, ob10 serve again from the same unaffected,... | |
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