 | Margaret Fuller - 1856 - 466 Seiten
...indulge his tastes. His object in Europe AMERICANS IN EUROPE. 251 is to have fashionable clothes, geod foreign cookery, to know some titled persons, and...seems so painfully mean and little, — such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes, — such a crushing of the mass of men... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1856 - 466 Seiten
...these two classes, as well as of the third, of which I am now to speak. -This is that of th^jthinking American, — a man who, recognizing the immense advantage...seems so painfully mean and little, — such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes, — such a crushing of the mass of men... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1856 - 466 Seiten
...being born to a new world and on a virgin soil, yet does not wish one seed from the past to he-lost. He is anxious to gather and carry back with him every...seems so painfully mean and little, — such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes, — such a crashing of the mass of men... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1895 - 466 Seiten
...worthless. He comes abroad to spend his money and indulge his tastes. His object in Europe is to have fashionable clothes, good foreign cookery, to know...seems so painfully mean and little. — such terrible bafliings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes, — such a crushing of the mass of-... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896
...not a creature without hope, like the thick-skinned dandy of the class first specified. The artists form a class by themselves. Yet among them, though...seems so painfully mean and little, — such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes; such a crushing of the mass of men beneath... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901
...not a creature without hope, like the thick-skinned dandy of the class first specified. The artists form a class by themselves. Yet among them, though...he does not neglect to study their history in this. mean and little, — such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes; such... | |
 | 1901
...back with him every plant that will bear a new climate and new culture. Some will dwindle ; others wiH attain a bloom and stature unknown before. He wishes...he does not neglect to study their history in this. mean and little, — such terrible baffiings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes ;... | |
 | Philip Rahv - 1947 - 743 Seiten
...not a creature without hope, like the thick-skinned dandy of the class first specified. The artists form a class by themselves. Yet among them, though...he does not neglect to study their history in this. . . . Eighteen hundred years of this Christian culture in these European kingdoms, a great theme never... | |
 | Allison Lockwood - 1981 - 551 Seiten
...to gather and carry back with him every plant that will bear a new climate and a new culture. . . . He wishes to gather them clean, free from noxious...under which he may best place them in that new world," she concluded, "he does not neglect to study their history in this."3 American travelers in the early... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1992 - 338 Seiten
...bloom and stature unknown before. He wishes to gather them clean, free from noxious insects. He wishes to give them a fair trial in his new world. And that...seems so painfully mean and little, such terrible bafflings and failures to compensate some brilliant successes — such a crashing of the mass of men... | |
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The artistes form a class by themselves. Yet among them, though seeking special aims by special means, may also be found the lineaments of these two classes, as well as of the third, of which I am now to speak. This is that of the thinking American,—... 
