 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 páginas
...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is? It takes the laws of the world whereby man's... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 páginas
...gap between idealized camaraderie and the practical manifestations of it, he stresses that ultimately "we walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables" (352). In "Circles" he offers one of his harshest statements about why "our friendships hurry to short... | |
 | John Matteson - 2007 - 506 páginas
...spirits than could be provided by mere mortals. "The higher the style we demand of friendship," he wrote, "of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. . . . Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables. "-*5 Alcott was probably better able than anyone... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 páginas
...and credibly remain friends? The worry isn't lost on Emerson, who sees quite well that "the higher style we demand of friendship, of course, the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood" (CW2, 125). But how well does he negotiate what might prove a gulf between two? In the essay's penultimate... | |
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 | John Lubbock - 428 páginas
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The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. We walk alone in the world. Friends . such as we desire are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere,... 
