 | William Mathews - 1885 - 388 pages
...imagination that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing." Do that which is assigned you, and yon cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at...Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Hoses or Dante, bat different from all these. — BW EMERSON. /CLOSELY connected with self-reliance... | |
 | 1912 - 748 pages
...be enjoyed by taking the fast trains of the M., K. & T. railway. INSIST on yourself ; never imitate. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave...grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from these. If you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...borrow. Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There...of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul, all rich, all eloquent, with thousandcloven tongue, deign to repeat itself;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou canst not hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment, there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...borrow. Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There...brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias,4 or trowel5 of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante,6 but different from all these.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou canst not hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment, there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 pages
...But only to discover and to do, With cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. — JBAN INGELOW. "Do that which is assigned you," says Emerson, " and...of Moses or Dante, but different from all these." ' ' I felt that I was in the world to do something, and thought I must," said Whittier, thus giving... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...borrow. Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There...pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul, all rich, all eloquent, with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...borrow. Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There...brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias,4 or trowel5 of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante,6 but different from all these.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pages
...essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." Emerson says, " There is at this moment for you an utterance brave...of Moses or Dante, but different from all these." GEORGE STEPHENSON " We should aa soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer lthemselves to be fired... | |
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Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different... 
