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" And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. "
Walden - Seite 153
von Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 Seiten
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The Desire of My Eyes: The Life & Work of John Ruskin

Wolfgang Kemp - 1992 - 530 Seiten
...here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us." 256 The first people to try out a new technology always find out that the medium is the message. The...
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Reimagining Thoreau

Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 Seiten
...here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to all our conceptions. . . . Let...
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Crazy Mountains: Learning from Wilderness to Weigh Technology

David Strong - 1995 - 268 Seiten
...we discover nature is deep. It is we who must enter, explore, and come to have some understanding. "We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us."9 Beginning as simply as possible, I want to suggest the various ways Walden reveals Walden Pond...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science

Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 Seiten
...wished his epiphanies to happen through facts, through sharp and actual experience with real things. "And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us," he wrote in Walden (97). In the spring of 1851 the evidence of that "instilling...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science

Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 Seiten
...wished his epiphanies to happen through facts, through sharp and actual experience with real things. "And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us," he wrote in Walden (97). In the spring of 1851 the evidence of that "instilling...
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The Crossroads of American History and Literature

Philip F. Gura - 2004 - 304 Seiten
...writing Walden Thoreau had learned (as he so beautifully expressed it) that "we are able to comprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us," a more eloquent formulation of Johnson's notion that to know what the universe truly is, man must dismiss...
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Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920

David E. Shi - 1996 - 410 Seiten
..."entertain the true problems of life." In Walden (1854) he emphasized that "we are enabled to apprehend what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us." But Thoreau defined "reality" in a transcendental sense. He was willing to exchange facts for "vague...
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Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson

Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 Seiten
...trees, wind on our cheeks!' " As in those passages in Walden 's second chapter when Thoreau notes that "we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us, " we finally must read his confusion at the summit of Ktaadn as celebratory, an...
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Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism

James C. Edwards - 2010 - 270 Seiten
...here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instil ling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently...
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From Origin to Ecology: Nature and the Poetry of W.S. Merwin

Jane Frazier - 1999 - 150 Seiten
...explain what the awareness of the earth can mean to the human, as he does in one segment from Walden: And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime...lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never had yet so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.30 Thoreau's...
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