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" A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... "
Essays: First Series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...they, thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life conventional or original 1 What is...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...grandest strokes, there we feel most at home.'— Essay i., p. 6. ' In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.' — Essay ii., p. 46. This is cheering as to the potentiality of the species. Hence there can be little...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...grandest strokes, there we feel most at borne.' — Essay i., p. 6. ' In every work of genius wo recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain nlienated majesty.' — Essay ii., p. 46. This is cheering as to the potentiality of the species. Hence...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bard and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...
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