 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 13by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ron Willingham - 1999 - 276 pages
...obviously figured out by now) is Emerson, who wrote so eloquently in his essay "Experience," "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."... | |
 | David Metzger - 2000 - 266 pages
...Emerson's abrupt interpellation, leaves us wondering. Emerson's strangely postmodern observation, that 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,"... | |
 | Christine Doyle - 2003 - 232 pages
...which she had drawn both her title and epigraph. The original epigraph, quoting Emerson, reads, "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." Indeed, the earlier floods demonstrated the many dangers and problems... | |
 | Ronni Lundy - 2003 - 148 pages
...golden light, and that light immersing your hody with a feeling of harmony, balance, and wholeness. LIFE IS A TRAIN OF MOODS LIKE A STRING OF BEADS, AND AS...THROUGH THEM THEY PROVE TO BE MANY COLORED LENSES. American transcendental ist 43 ^e*.-' ANNE ASHLEY STAR LIGHT NINE POINTS TH E STAR ISA UN 1 VERSAL... | |
 | David R. Jarraway - 2003 - 252 pages
...Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. © For Ian, actio in distans 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. . . . Of what use is genius, if the organ... | |
 | Alfred Habegger - 2004 - 312 pages
...her naturally lurid color with her stern Concord integrity. The novel's Emersonian epigraph - "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" - hints at the enterprise the book represents: It will dare to... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence off solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many coloured lenses, which paint the world their own hue and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...you? How would you describe them? 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.... | |
 | D. B. Dyer - 2005 - 264 pages
...gladness and sorrow, joy and sadness, happiness, and something that is all this mingled, for " 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 hue, and each shows what lies in its focus." When the... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...of moods" resembling "a string of beads," which as we pass through them "prove to be many-coloured lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus." He may be recalling the "inanimate cold world" of the Dejection Ode when he adds that "we animate what... | |
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