 | 1835 - 616 pages
...by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...his volume. The discerning will read in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle, — and all the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part—only the auOf course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part,—only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; and all the rest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; — all the rest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; — all the rest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerningwill read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; — all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; and all the rest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...by .labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense...or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and... | |
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He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous... 
