 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...  Works - Page 83by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...American Scholar," his criticism had sounded more hopeful. "Perhaps the time is already come . . . 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 of mechanical skill." But the iron... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such,...look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence,... | |
 | Phillip Sipiora, James S. Baumlin - 2002 - 276 pages
...born on American soil. He opens his lecture with a call for a new American literature based in kairos: "Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to...look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill" (Essays, 53).... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pages
...monetary enslavement and cultivate "private obedience to his mind." The time was already approaching 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 mechanical skill." 22 How was this monumental change... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such,...look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence,... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such,...look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.2 It is an "indestructible... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...says, " our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amoBgst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Eerhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the Blnggard... | |
 | Robert Allen Warrior - 278 pages
...intellectual rise, called for when he addressed the topic of "The American Scholar" in 1837. As he said, "Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to...look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other... | |
 | Paul Dawson - 2005 - 272 pages
...America has 'listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe' (1907: 860) and that the time had come '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 of mechanical skill' (847). It was... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...literature has survived, "the sign of an indestructible instinct." But perhaps "the time is already come," 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 of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence,... | |
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