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... Library of Advertising - Page 93edited by - 1911Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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...majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting D lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by ou spontaneous impression with good humoured inflexibility... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...without notice his thought, because it is his. Jp <every work of genius we recognize our own rejected 1 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 abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...the fact "—John Stuart Mill. A pause is used at a period, to mark the completion of sense; as, " In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. . . . "— Emerson. A long pause—several times the usual length of that at a period—is required... | |
| Alfred Barron - 1875 - 344 pages
...he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular experience when I reach a certain point on the road to New Haven. I have... | |
| Alfred Barron - 1875 - 336 pages
...he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular experience when I reach a certain point on the road to New Haven. I have... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. .A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.1 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genins we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come...Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for ns than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...the Esquimaux seal-hunter, for the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? h God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in...heard throughout nature though for cheap ends. Caratac Broader and deeper we must write our i more affecting lesson for us than this. annals, — from an... | |
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