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" These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 67
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...upright; he 30 dares not say " I think," " I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There...
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The Musical Quarterly, Volume 12

Oscar George Sonneck - 1926 - 698 pages
...MUSICAL QUARTERLY VOL. XII JULY, 1926 NO. 3 ARTISTIC IDEALS1 II. SPONTANEITY By DANIEL GREGORY MASON "These roses under my window make no reference to...are for what they are; they exist with God to-day." — Emerton. AI academic and over-conscientious friend of Renoir's once reproached him with being the...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 418 pages
...upright ; he dares not say ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts ; in the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...longer upright. He dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence J" Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...longer upright; he dares not say, "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...under my window make no reference to ormer roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; :hey exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There...perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; n the full-blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless...
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Artistic Ideals

Daniel Gregory Mason - 1927 - 228 pages
...shall find ourselves happier than we could have dreamed to be possible. II. SPONTANEITY II. SPONTANEITY "These roses under my window make no reference to...are for what they are; they exist with God today." — Emerson. AN academic and over-conscientious friend of Renoir's once reproached him with being the...
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After the New Criticism

Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 pages
...Man's retrospective superciliousness. Man, Emerson tells us in "Self-Reliance," is "ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses...roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; . . . There is no time to them. . . . [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature...
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3 ...

C. W. E. Bigsby - 1985 - 500 pages
...Zen influence. It was securely in the American grain. In 'Self-Reliance' Emerson had insisted that, These roses under my window make no reference to former...they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones...
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On Emerson

Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...to bring to his experience the same degree of presence that he found wonderful in natural objects. "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones," he wrote in "SelfReliance": they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time...
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