 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 pages
...under the rustling leaves of the aspen and the musical moaning of the pine. " The universe," he said, " constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and nohle a design, but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Agnes Maule Machar - Canadian fiction - 1906 - 298 pages
...Love. Yet, we must all help on, as far as we can. I take comfort in a thought I found in my Thoreau — 'The universe constantly and obediently answers to...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design, but some of his posterity at... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - Authors, American - 1927 - 186 pages
...moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling...us. The universe constantly and obediently answers our conceptions ; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us." Here were none of the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Wood-engraving, British - 1927 - 372 pages
...the ueiuetual instilling thar surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to ollf conceptions : whether we travel fast or slow, the...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 182 pages
...and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers pur conceptions ; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us." Here were none of the stuffy superstitions of hell fire and brimstone, of redemption by penance, nor... | |
 | Walter Harding, George Brenner, Paul A. Doyle - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 164 pages
...front-yard gate in the Great Snow— no gate— no front yard— and no path to the civilized world. AND WE ARE ENABLED TO APPREHEND AT ALL WHAT IS SUBLIME AND NOBLE BY THE PERPETUAL INSTILLING AND DRENCHING OF THE REALITY THAT SURROUNDS US. It remains for Ives to... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 148 pages
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. Walden, "Where I Lived" We can only live healthily the life the gods assign us. I must receive my life... | |
 | Leo J. Eiden - Education - 1981 - 1298 pages
...trxath as at a flash». In the chapter «What I lived for» he writes: «We are ble ** aPPrenerx<l at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and °* "^ *~eality that surround us». The gerunds are characteristic, drawn from °t touc\v tlkait penetrate... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner - Education - 1986 - 404 pages
...and a confidence in the match between the natural order and human understanding. As Thoreau put it, "The universe constantly and obediently answers to...for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then" (p. 105). From Kant came the idea that the categories of our perception cooperate in the generation... | |
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And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. 
