 | 1883 - 558 páginas
...the senses, and fix his heart on the immutable reality of the supersensual world : Said Brahma. 1f the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. This being so, the Oriental may well have thought, — since all is Maya, and assassin and victim are... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 páginas
...infinite repose Almost a smile to steal to cheer her sons, As if one riddle of the Sphinx were guessed. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the...They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I-am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods... | |
 | 1888 - 344 páginas
...the original. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain. They know well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again....me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanquished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ;... | |
 | 1890 - 1460 páginas
...utterance. In " Brahma," Emerson reproduces a thorough-going pantheism : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. " Far and forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And... | |
 | Charles Rockwell Lanman - 1890 - 94 páginas
...paraphrasing the Sanskrit passage. They are conceived as if uttered by the Allpervading Spirit : — Tf the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury - 1890 - 208 páginas
...quite as much as to the divinity of existence the old Brahma lines : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." * * A yood instance is this quatrain of Mr. EmerBut, marchons, I touch a single subor dinate feature... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 páginas
...immortality. The more subtle and mystic view of the Oriental dreamers is faithfully mirrored in Emerson's " Brahma :" If the red slayer think he slays, Or if...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. The cautious and lentntive outlook of pagan philosophy finds expression in a fragment of Euripides... | |
 | 1903 - 548 páginas
...1857, which is still not so well understood, forty and five years after, as not to need quotation: If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, ancT turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to... | |
 | 1906 - 560 páginas
...appropriate to itself those words which Emerson put in the mouth of Brahma : If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - 1893 - 378 páginas
...excited much the same ridicule that the " Orphic Sayings " had caused, nearly twenty years before. " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again.' This is more paradoxical than anything Alcott wrote. But the poem is a perfect image of the " Bhagavad... | |
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are... 
