 | 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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of ail the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.. 1 .And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. ,> Let us... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...God'Himself culminatesjn the present moment, and jgilLaemr be morejjTvine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 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...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 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...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least coujd accomplish it./ Let us... | |
 | Agnes Maule Machar - 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... | |
 | Ernest Albert Baker - 1908 - 316 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...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let every... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend... | |
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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. 
