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. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Essays: First Series - Page 75by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
| Craig Nagel - 2007 - 266 pages
...former roses or better ones; they are for what 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 or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose;...satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the... | |
| John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. . . . Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. (CW2, 38 -39) This passage presents a different problem. Often by way of contrast with what he terms... | |
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