| 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...of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life conventional or original 1 What is... | |
| 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 - 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
...Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1849 - 448 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
| 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... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...across his mind from within, more than the lustre ol the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 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...dismisses 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... | |
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