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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... "
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America - Page 157
by Fredrika Bremer - 1853
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...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
...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...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...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...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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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

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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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