...will suggest how radically different was the American Romantic's attitude towards memory and the past. 'But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory . . ?'; 'In nature every moment is new; the past is swallowed and forgotten;...

...York: Vintage Books, 1979), 193. 130 on the basis of these earlier actions. But why, Emerson asks, "should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict [something] you have stated in this or that public place?"...

...reticent to the point of silence on the topic of myth. Ill Struggles for Multiple Vision (i872-i877) It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Emerson,...

...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...

...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...

...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...

...erstwhile opinions. A demand for creation, for the new, is asserted over and against any repetition: Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . .. Speak...

...Charakteristikum der nach Unabhängigkeit strebenden literarischen Welt um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert. „But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory ...?"; „In nature every moment is new; the past is swallowed and forgotten;...

...sure? Try this: Why do we go on dragging around this corpse of memory? Emerson And what about this: It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone, but to bring the past to judgement into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in the...

...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...