 Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Neil A. Hamilton - 2002 - 386 pages
...he called on Americans to free themselves from the dead hand of European culture. He said, "Our long dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The statement paralleled his... | |
 | Jeffrey Thomas Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux - 2003 - 236 pages
..."The American Scholar," that American artists and thinkers leave behind the models of colonial Europe: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" (Selected Essays, 83). Or Poe's thoughts in his 1842 review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales: "As Americans... | |
 | Robert L. Dorman - 2003 - 386 pages
...paragraph of "The American Scholar," Emerson himself engaged in an act of "conscious decentralization" — "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" — and at the same time exhorted his audience to "fill the postponed expectation of the world with... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...a lesson that Nehru extracts from Emerson by splicing together passages from "The American Scholar" ("our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close") and "SelfReliance" ("the rage for traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness"). Nehru abandons... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Oar day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the...remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that most be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age,... | |
 | Michael Soto - 2004 - 248 pages
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