 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on... | |
 | Rudolph Nelson - 2002 - 272 pages
...variation on that theme, Emerson, in his essay "Self- Reliance," extolled the child's nonconformity: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...engaging of Emerson's descriptions of self-reliance is found a short way into the essay, where he writes, "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature" (CW 2:29). Emerson raises through this description the image of an attitude of indifference that accords... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...ourselves. The sense of independence and freedom that results from such a conviction is analogous to "the nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a Lord to do or 129 say aught to conciliate one." Warming to this analogy, Emerson continues: A boy is in the parlour... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...neither Emerson nor Parker can quite put his finger on the problem. Here, for instance, is Emerson: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his comer on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 220 pages
...perhaps alone ours and can alone give our opinions substance. He recommends a figure to our attention: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain ... to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. . . . Independent,... | |
 | Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 pages
...History, p. 67. 81. The phrase is from "Self-Reliance": "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ought to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pages
...midst were many thoughts on male nonconformity. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner &- would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one," he wrote, "is the healthy attitude of human nature." This sentence would find its way eventually into... | |
 | Edward Ashbee - 2002 - 172 pages
...wanted an all-pervading spirit of suspicious resentment: 'The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do...conciliate one. is the healthy attitude of human nature' (quoted in Allen 1 9 70: 141). The ideas associated with expressive individualism are also evident... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 262 pages
...thinking, he was ripe for Emerson's work, however long it would take him to find a way of writing about it: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken... | |
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A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting,... 
