 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with goodhumored...  Library of Advertising - Page 93edited by - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...good sense, precisely what we have thought and felt the whole time, and we shall be forced to take our own opinion from another. * * * * " Trust thyself;... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility,...good sense, precisely what we have thought and felt the whole time, and we shall be forced to take our own opinion from another. * * * # " Trust thyself;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more n affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to...precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, .andjee. „ shall^ be_forced to take jvith shame OUT own opinion from another. .There is a time in... | |
 | 1896 - 762 pages
...essay on " Self-reliance," this much at least, " that a stranger with masterly good sense," has said, "precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we are forced to take with shame* our own opinions from another." The credit goes to the man who dared... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament...time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." The same idea is thus expressed by the English novelist, David Christie Murray:... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide \>y our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility,...time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." The same idea is thus expressed by the English novelist, David Christie Murray... | |
 | 1906 - 214 pages
...have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with good-humored inflexibility, then most when the...have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be foreed to take with shame our opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes... | |
 | Samuel C. Cronwright-Schreiner - 1906 - 574 pages
...by the trumpets of the Last Judgment." " Abide by your own spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...sense precisely what we have thought and felt all along, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." " Trust thyself : every... | |
 | 1911 - 180 pages
...^hey_teach_iis Jo abide by^^ur spontaneous impressions with_good^mmpred ._jnflexibiljJ3z, is. __^___ . on.the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with...time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...sages. 5 " Then most," ie, most at that time. row a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be force take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he... | |
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