Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best,... Progressive Exercises in English Composition - Page 212by Richard Green Parker - 1873 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...Can we avoid imitation ? What makes a work original ? In architecture what must be considered ? 43. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Jnsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with tne cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...house in which all these will findjhemselves fitted, jand taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...house in which all these ifill find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...present every moment with the cumulative force of a whnle life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...house in which all these wffl find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare ? Where is the master who could... | |
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