 | CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...again; No darkness stains its equal gleam And ages drop in it like rain. 1850-57. 1858. BRAHMA 1 IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 1 Thia simple and condensed figurative statement of one of the commonplaces of any idealistic philosophy,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 308 pages
...the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 4 Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight...gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. 8 They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1905 - 468 pages
...look out for themselves, — Wilton Sargent, American. [860] MY SUNDAY AT HOME MY SUNDAY AT HOME If the Red Slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and torn again. EMERSON. IT was the unreproducible slid r, as he said this was his " fy-ist" visit to England,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - American literature - 1905 - 740 pages
...equal gleam And ages drop in it like rain. 1856-57. 1858. BRAHMA1 IF the red skyer think he slays, I Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 1 Tliis simple and condensed figurative statement of one of the commonplaces of any idealistic philosophy,... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2 Slayer, — Tf the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again, EMERSON, Brahma, st, 1 Sleep, Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...which James utilizes to point out that "teleology (had she a voice) would exclaim with Emerson: "If the red slayer think he slays Or if the slain think...well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again ****** They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the... | |
 | Paul Kuritz - Performing Arts - 1988 - 478 pages
...Sanskrit texts and wrote "Brahma" under the influence of the Bhagavad-Gita: "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." Nature and the Orient increased the Transcendentalists' reliance on intuition and experience. The Transcendentalists... | |
 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Philosophy - 1989 - 358 pages
...doctrine contained so lucidly in the Katha-Upanishad, is reflected in his wellknown poem "Brahma": // the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Emerson also concluded his essay on immortality with the story of Nachiketas drawn again from the Katha-Upanishad.16... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 416 pages
...one is reminded of Emerson's poem "Brahma" (which Borges cites in his 1947 essay on Whitman):12 If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame. One question, however, still remains to be settled. Does Borges, in rewriting the numerical/geometrical... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...thrives to reach its natural term; (1. 53-60) AmPP; AWP; LiTA. NOBA; OBEY; OxBA; PoEL-4 Brahma 6 If she seems. When withered old and skeleton-gaunt, An...— 13) 67 Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautifu (1. 1—4) 7 They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and... | |
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