 They are free, and they make free. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the...  The New Fraternity: A Novel of University Life - Page 223by George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting...by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the author and the public, and heeds only this one dream, which holds him like an insanity, let me read... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting...by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the author and the public, and heeds only this one dream, which holds him like an insanity, let me read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.1 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting...-authors and the public and heeds only this one dream wfyich holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at the precise sense of the anthor. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting...by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the anthors and the public, and heeds only this one dream, which holds him like an insanity, let me read... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1879 - 834 pages
...author." He then goes on to speak rather inconsistently with a previously-quoted passage of his : " I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting...extraordinary. If a man is inflamed and carried away in his thoughts to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public and heeds only his one dream,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...afterwards, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in hooks, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. If...by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the autfior and the public, and heeds only this one dream, wliich holds him like an insanity, let me read... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 610 pages
...thought, to that degree that he forgets the author and the public, and heeds only this one dream, wliich holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all I he arguments and histories and criticism. All the value which attaches to Pythagoras, Paracelsus,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...Twenty-fifth. If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men. Nmteniber Twenty-sixth. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. November Twenty-seventh. The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 280 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books excepting...public and heeds only this one dream which holds him Uke an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting...insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the i THE POET 177 arguments and ^istories and criticism. All the value which attaches to Pythagoras, Paracelsus,... | |
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