The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. They receive of the soul as he also receives, but they more. Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding... Complete Works - Page 11by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Beauty, to the-means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 240 pages
...among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak...more himself than he is. They receive of the soul as ha also receives, but they more. Nature enhances her beauty to the eye of loving men, from their belief... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. erson commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...Beauty, to the means and materials he uses, and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet...man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth. The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than... | |
| 1890 - 492 pages
...characteristics, touch human nature at more common points, than the rest of mankind. Emerson says, " The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is." The works of such men are less individual than typical and universal. In their creations — their... | |
| Illinois Society for Child-Study - 1902 - 88 pages
...familiar thing; it simply voices my own experience." As Emerson says again you know : "The great man apprises us not of his wealth but of the common wealth." The genius does not give us his wealth but he renders us ours again — the common wealth. But it is essential... | |
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