...expression, he counseled writers to turn away from Europe and study America— "the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government"— in short, to make the present facts of American life as important a source of inspiration as the learned...

...of day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of government, he will create a house in which these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied too." Taliesin to a greater extent than any other of Wright's works to 1915 embodied conceptions of...

...will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. RALPH WALDO EMERSON In the early morning fog, the headlights of the cars moving on Harding Road toward...

...will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. (Essays 1, II, 81.) If Emerson provided the philosophical support for Ives' artistic independence,...

...in a srare of pulp and allows herself to be moulded. 'Never imirare,' says Emerson, 'your own gifr you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopred ralent of another you have only a half possession.' The Ametican school girl does not imirare....

...will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also" (E, 278). 20. Compare: "I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine...

...will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the...fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.33 and by Thoreau in his famous line from Walden, "I have travelled a good deal in Concord." Pierce...

...will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soiL the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the govemment, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment...

...come! Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" could have been written to describe Bill Stokoe: "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." This was Bill Stokoe, a man who allowed us to...

...be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted.47 Beyond Emerson, we return to that Jacksonian hope, naive but noble, that America would build...