 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we...  Emerson - Page 35by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men. but what they, thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...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 - 1850 - 354 pages
...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 light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what •men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...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 light which flashes...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 - 1854 - 676 pages
...books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes 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.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...and this again is one of its excellent effects ; for, as a great author says, " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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 light which flashes...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... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they conic back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
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