...nation bears me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years... . These being his functions, it becomes him to feel...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Dr. Holmes called this speech of Emerson's...

...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...59). Overall he seems more anxious to warn scholars against acting hastily than to exhort them to act. ("Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom" [63]). The oration ends with a fervent if...

...mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. The odds are the whole question is not worth the poorest thought...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...and 1950s— as, indeed, they have always been in the long history of mass entertainment. 140 EIGHT Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Born in Bavaria in 1895,...

..."self-trust." He is "to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. . . . Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and the honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." If he trusts himself, he will discover...

...treasure bag of epigraphs that stiffen one's soul* against the chattering advice of the elder generation: "Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of * Nineteenth-century Christians, including the...

...John stood still, his eyes unfocused, latched to nothing. He spoke more to himself than Breckenridge. "Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the world know it to be the crack of doom." "Yes," Tyler responded over his shoulder....

...inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this he shall hear and promulgate. 20 These being his functions, it becomes him to feel...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...