 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is...  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 291by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave rnischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — ,is instantly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Eack age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation—the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, 01 rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 5 13. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the... | |
 | 1911 - 448 pages
...depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or, rather, each generation...; henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit ; henceforth it is settled the book is perfect. As love of the hero corrupts... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...were extant in the world. — LORD MACAULAY. Lord Bacon. A SORT OF THIRD ESTATE Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or, rather, each generation...: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect ; as love of the hero... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. is Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature of the Past, for " each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." No, let us learn to walk on our own feet, let us work with our own hands, let us speak our own minds.... | |
 | 1916 - 798 pages
...them. There came mockingly to my mind a sentence read several times with high-school classes: "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation, for the next succeeding." I remembered how heartily we applauded the idea and how modem we felt ourselves in studying the plea... | |
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