 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...  Foot Notes: Or, Walking as a Fine Art - Page 29by Alfred Barron - 1875 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 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...it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life conventional... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...ton 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...it is his. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 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...it is his. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...it is his. 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... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...soul, is that they set books and traditions at nought, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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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