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" 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 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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The International Studio, Volume 41

1910 - 510 pages
...under the influence of Europe as the easel pictures. Many years have passed since Emerson wrote : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of •other lands draws to a close." The "close" has not been reached yet, and it may take longer •than the generation prophesied by Dr. Bode....
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The American Scholar, Volume 1

William Allison Shimer - 1932 - 534 pages
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The Making of American Literature

Thomas H. Dickinson - 1932 - 758 pages
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American Literature, 1880-1930

Alfred Charles Ward - 1932 - 316 pages
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The Liberation of American Literature, Volume 1

Victor Francis Calverton - 1932 - 540 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 87

1901 - 972 pages
...searching for truth which is too high for the American nation. They think, as Emerson said, "опт days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning...are rushing into life .cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests.' And as the first necessary condition of such a change they seek a clear...
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The Life of Emerson

Van Wyck Brooks - 1932 - 330 pages
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The Romantic Triumph: American Literature from 1830 to 1860

Tremaine McDowell - 1933 - 768 pages
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Creating the Modern American Novel

Harlan Hatcher - 1935 - 328 pages
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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...past forms, Emerson seems less the apostle of a new American literature than its anticipatory prophet: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he announced toward the beginning of "The American Scholar," concluding with a series of calls that...
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