 | Ihab Hassan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 256 pages
...knows. The body shows when the self is false, when, for instance, we put a foolish smile on our face "in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us." Then, Emerson says, the "muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfullness,... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 268 pages
...when Emerson describes the physical experience (and not the visible appearance) of what he calls " 'the foolish face of praise,' the forced smile which...answer to conversation which does not interest us. Thus muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation; a sensation of rebuke and warning which no brave young man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 284 pages
...gendest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the oudine of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation. For nonconformity the world whips you with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 2005 - 69 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There Is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulaess, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation; a sensation... | |
 | Tom Walsh - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 200 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation. For nonconformity... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation. For nonconformity... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation. For nonconformity... | |
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the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the... 
