...wanted an all-pervading spirit of suspicious resentment: 'The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do...conciliate one. is the healthy attitude of human nature' (quoted in Allen 1 9 70: 141). The ideas associated with expressive individualism are also evident...

...word's possible meanings, hence it can be related to the "ordinary" or "innocent" attitude to the world: "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." In: Nina Baym (ed.): The Norton Anthology, Vol. I., p. 1 128. There is an interesting parallel between...

...thinking, he was ripe for Emerson's work, however long it would take him to find a way of writing about it: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...

...process his gendering of independence. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner," he writes, "and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." 8 These irresponsible and independent boys, however, are embedded within relationships of dependence,...

...anticipate them in a parenthetical remark which Leverenz omits from his quotations: the boys "should disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one." A more adequate reader of the canonical writers Leverenz discusses must be alert to the play of voices...

...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from...

...[The true man] measures you and all men and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard.* The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from...

...Waldo Emerson, who in his famous essay "Self-Reliance" (1841) recruits carefree boys as American men: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ought to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit...

...been. TOM JO AI)'S CHI I, I) RKX The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a d1nner, and would d1sda1n as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. RALPH WALDO EME RSON , "Self- Reliance" I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they...

...speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from...