 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why,... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...plain enough. Yet see Life only avails, not the having lived. what strong intellects dare not yet hear Power ceases in the instant of repose: it resides in the moment of transition from But now we are a mob. Man does not T past to a new state, in the shooting of stand in awe of man, nor... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...as it does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Tiifn nnly yails. not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant...the moment of transition from a past to a new state, m tne snooting ot tne gull, injne darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes;... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. uum, reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...see Life only avails, not the having lived, what strong intellects dare not yet hear Power c«ases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from But now we are a mob. Man does not •a past to a new state, in the shooting of stand in awe of man,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...time they can use words as good when occasion comes. If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is аз transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why... | |
 | 1903 - 912 pages
...Emerson's highest praise, and yet he offsets this praise of Jesus by a peculiarly unfortunate sentence : " This one fact the world hates ; that the soul becomes ; for that forever . . . shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." Emerson puts Jesus on a level with other great servants... | |
 | Raymond Carney - 1994 - 340 pages
...be daffy, impulsive, or slightly dangerous. He fulfills Emerson's conception of power as movement: "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past into a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates,... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - 2010 - 498 pages
...to occupy: never, to borrow from Bloom's preferred precursor, "in the instant of repose," but always "in the moment of transition from a past to a new...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim" (Emerson 1957, 158). In this context, "influence" indeed becomes a term applicable to other voices... | |
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. 
