| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
| 1903 - 1362 psl.
...of nature are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, that man, instead of ascending through nature,... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 psl.
...next unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' "Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we have seen that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 psl.
...Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 psl.
...of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
| 1879 - 1036 psl.
...of countless rings, The next unto the farthest brings: The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, that for example, " To... | |
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