 | Concord School of Philosophy - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 176 pages
...which destroy nothing of the substance of things, I must help myself with a verse of Mr. Emerson's : If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Music — what shall we say of its dissolving series? How may we describe the heroic moods into which... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 176 pages
...destroy nothing of the substance of things, I must help myself with a verse of Mr. Emerson's : If the rod slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Music — what shall we say of its dissolving series? How may we describe the heroic moods into which... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 176 pages
...destroy nothing of the substance of tilings, I must liclp myself with a verse of Mr. Emerson's : If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turu again. Music — what shall we say of its dissolving series? How may we describe the heroic moods... | |
 | George Lunt - American poetry - 1883 - 308 pages
...cram, But thou, whose mother-wit is clear, Find me the Mab-struck thing I am. * * BRAHMA— BY EWE IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the suhtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, Shadow and sunshine are... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 176 pages
...substance of tilings, I must help myself with a verse of Mr. Emerson's : If the red slayer think ho slays, Or If the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways 1 keep, and pass, and turn again. Music — what shall we say of its dissolving series? How may we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...Almost a smile to steal to cheer her sons, As if one riddle of the Sphinx were guessed. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same; J The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out;... | |
 | George Lunt - American poetry - 1884 - 306 pages
...Mab-struck thing I am. * •BRAHMA— BY RWE IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain thiuk he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I...turn again. Far or forgot to me is near, Shadow and sunshine are the same, The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - Baptists - 1884 - 888 pages
...represents the present belief of the Brahmins in its relations to human life: " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...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 urn the doubter and the doubt,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 346 pages
...good compost of them both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeed. "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." What is the end of Nature? Where is the end of a sphere ? The sphere balances at any and every point.... | |
 | Literature - 1885 - 528 pages
...vague and mystical exposition of pantheism. Emerson extracted the gist of it in his " Brahma ; " If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways. 1 keep, and pass, and turn again. And here is Mr. Arnold's rendering: If he that slayeth thinks " I... | |
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TF the red slayer think he slays, -*- Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 
