 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...and friendship shall come to the great." As he had said in the peroration of "The American Scholar," if "the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him" (E&L 19. It does so in the oblique, syntactically awkward but clearly paradoxical fourth stanza: "Cities... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...before the group. And if the world refuses these priorities, "Patience — patience," counsels Emerson, "if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."31 And if it doesn't? Still more patience, for character is not only higher than intellect, it... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - 2006 - 162 pages
...improve society, the Transcendentalists' focus was inward. As Emerson wrote in his book Nature (1836), "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Margaret Fuller's friends were buzzing with the new ideas. Couldn't you improve your own life? Earn... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...trusted." 29 He felt this confidence himself, and he assures his audience in "The American Scholar" that "if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." 30 Goodness and love will eventually triumph. Through the regeneration of individuals, society itself... | |
 | Randall Fuller - 2007 - 232 pages
...one has always to disregard received opinion and to listen instead to the voice within, that "if a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come around to him" (EL 70). If this position at times recalls John Ashbery's "fence-sitting as an aesthetic... | |
 | John McCormick - 2011 - 263 pages
...literary exploitation. "The American Scholar," however, worked frightful mischief when Emerson said that if "the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." We have seen that from the outset, writers commenting on the American literary landscape confused literary... | |
 | Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. - 2008 - 144 pages
...what you know is all there is to know, because your Spirit may surprise you with something more. li the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON ( V V— ;>'. V here's nothing strange about intuition, but there is much that... | |
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... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 
