 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...  An Inductive Study of Standards of Right - Page 30by Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 321 pagesFull 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
...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humored 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;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...affecting 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...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... | |
 | 1864 - 98 pages
...lesson for us than this : They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with a good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...to-morrow a stranger will say, with masterly good sense, that which we have thought and experienced all the time ; and we be compelled to accept our own opinions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...affecting 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...the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say \vith masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most5 when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-mor1 Opinion. 2 See Note 2, p. 29. 3 John Milton (1608-74), one of the greatest and most original... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most5 when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-mor1 Opinion. 2 See Note 2, p. 29. 3 John Milton (1608-74), one of the greatest and most original... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...affecting lesson than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with 25 masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all tlie time, and we shall be forced... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, i because it is his. Q, Tn every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what AVC have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from... | |
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