...house to go upon the sea must not build a Parthenon, but a ship ; and Shakspeare, or Franklin, or Esop, coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom a comic form, and I well know how to do it. And he is no master who cannot vary his form and carry his own end triumphantly...

...house to go upon the sea must not build a Parthenon, but a ship; and Shakspeare, or Franklin, or Esop, coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom a comic form, and I well know how to do it. And he is no master who cannot vary his form and carry his own end triumphantly...

...Franklin, or Esop, coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom a comic form, and I well know how to do it. And he is no master who cannot vary his form and carry his own end triumphantly through the most difficult conditions." For his own part, he...

...sea, must not build a Parthenon, or a square house, but a ship. And Shakspeare, or Franklin, or ^Esop, coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom...his own end triumphantly through the most difficult. / Adrian, Michigan, January When I see the waves of Lake Michigan toss in the bleak snowstorm, I see...

...Frost essentially contends that "he who knows not both knows neither." Emerson makes the same point: "He is no master who cannot vary his forms and carry...own end triumphantly through the most difficult." Mastery for both writers meant mastery through and by means of what Frost calls the "harsher disciplines]...

...say, These are the new conditions to which I must conform. . . . Shakespeare, or Franklin, or Aesop, coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom...form, instead of tragics or elegiacs, and well I know how to do it. In the middle Fifties, when Emerson reached this comfortable complaisance to popular...

...INTELLECTUAL 26 nois would say, I must give my wisdom a comic form," so too, Emerson congratulated himself, "well I know to do it; and he is no master who cannot vary his forms, & carry his own end triumphantly through the most difficult" (JMN 14: 28). Still, as this statement...

...sea must not build a parthenon or a square house, but a ship. And Shakespeare or Franklin or Aesop coming to Illinois, would say, I must give my wisdom a comic form, instead of tragics or elegiacs."4 In that same month twenty-oneyear-old Sam Clemens was working as a journeyman printer in...