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" Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. "
Every Day with Emerson - Page 13
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...each other are oblique and casual. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra

Raymond Carney - 1986 - 536 pages
...consciousness The Bitter Tea of General Yen Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...train of moods like a string of beads, and, äs we pass through them, they prove to be many-coloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus... We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate... Temperament is the iron wire on which the...
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Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

Alfred Habegger - 2004 - 312 pages
...undertake her brave and colorful novel in 1860, is not even on the title page of the 1882 version: . . . a string of beads; and as we pass through them they...colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue . . . The shadow had blotted out the colors after all. Chapter 4 The Chains of Literature Elizabeth...
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Emerson's Pragmatic Vision: The Dance of the Eye

David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...as the circulation of illusions: "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus"...
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The Public Is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in ...

Harriet Scott Chessman - 1989 - 280 pages
..."threatens to absorb all things." The image of a glass world changes into an image of "many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus." The earlier claim to unmediated vision gives way to an acknowledgment that "we do not see directly,...
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Moods

Louisa May Alcott - 1991 - 340 pages
...notes to this printing of .)/ooc/< have been supplied and appear at the end of the volume. MOODS Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as...which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. — Emerson CONTENTS Chapter I In a Year 5 II Whims 15 III Afloat...
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Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet

Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 pages
...what a "poet" can make of what he sees in nature but how relative and variable is what we see.12 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus....
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American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions

Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pages
...(1844) Emerson wrote the beautiful "dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue."74 In "Illusions" (1857) he wrote even more...
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography

Martha Saxton - 1995 - 462 pages
...remarkable insight, not just a facility for narration. The opening inscription is Emerson's: "Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as...colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and 274 each shows us only what lies in its own focus." Sylvia Yule, a young girl like Louisa in all respects,...
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