OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation... History of American Verse (1610-1897) - Seite 299von James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 395 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 Seiten
...Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy our original relation to the universe ? Why should a man have a poetry and philosophy of insight and... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 Seiten
...Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through our eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
| 1848 - 614 Seiten
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,, and not the history of theirs ? The sun shines to- day also? Let us demand our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...philosophy of insight, and not of tradition; and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 Seiten
...OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in Nature, whose floods... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 Seiten
...of the past." He will not see through the eyes of others, " Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should...philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? The sun shines to-day also? Let us demand our... | |
| 1848 - 636 Seiten
...past." He will not see through the eyes of others. "Why should not we also," he demands, " enjoy aп original relation to the universe ? Why should not...philosophy of insight, and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs * The sun shines to-day also ! Let us demand our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 Seiten
...OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 Seiten
...OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God...philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods... | |
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