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
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| Van Wyck Brooks - 1932 - 330 pages
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| Harlan Hatcher - 1935 - 328 pages
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| 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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