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... Massachusetts Quarterly Review - 215 psl.1849Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. u revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of... | |
| Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 psl.
...(1836), Emerson's spectacular philosophical debut, define the central problem he set for his readers: "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"30 The universe, according to Emerson, comprised "Nature and the Soul." By "nature," then,... | |
| Yunte Huang - 2002 - 226 psl.
...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" (Essays 7). 31. See Marjorie Perloff, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound... | |
| Sidney Gottlieb, Christopher Brookhouse - 2002 - 432 psl.
...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."4 The allusion here, of course, is to St. Paul, but the specific emphasis is on the contrast... | |
| Milton Gaither - 2003 - 220 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . .. Why should we grope among the dry bones of the... | |
| Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 psl.
...retrospective. h builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld god and nature face...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" " Nicht zufällig verbindet Emerson in dieser Eingangspassage... | |
| Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 psl.
...tradition thus evolved with Emerson into the domination of the individual and the nation over tradition: "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation...of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" ("Nature," SE: 35). The overcoming of tradition was... | |
| Bonnie Costello - 2003 - 252 psl.
...country is continually "awakening" from the slumber of derivativeness. Emerson complains in 1836 that "the foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" (Nature, I).1 Moore was herself a persistent critic of her culture's tendency, as she writes in "Poetry,"... | |
| Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 psl.
...retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? 2 5 This passage permits certain modes of mediation while refusing others. The "original," unmediated... | |
| Richard E. Wentz - 476 psl.
...expressed the typical American inability to comprehend the significance of tradition when he said, "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"3 Of course, we do enjoy an original relation to the universe, but it is never absolute.... | |
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