 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 Seiten
...prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up...pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. . . . (195) There are, he adds parenthetically, less remarkable... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 Seiten
...prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up...pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. . . . (195) There are, he adds parenthetically, less remarkable... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 Seiten
...prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up...pastures and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 Seiten
...prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up...pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides,... | |
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... are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last,... 
