| Peter R. Decker - 2004 - 266 pages
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| Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pages
...Construction and Criticism, dating from 1929: As Emerson says in his essay on "Self-Reliance": "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, . . . else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...essay, JL "Self-Reliance," Emerson exhorts his readers to hear and respect their own intuition. 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,... | |
| Anahita Teymourian-Pesch - 2006 - 288 pages
...Saundra Morris [Hg.], WW Norton & Company, Inc. New York, London 2001, 95. 197 Vgl. hierzu: „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. [...] The relations ofthe soul to the divine... | |
| Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...Plato, Milton) "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 light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Influence was the hobgoblin of Emerson's... | |
| Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 pages
...mentioned casually in passing. Perhaps the most fundamental basis of his thought is found in (2): "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." The key word is "flashes." In the context... | |
| Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...does this around a figure that is sustained in Emerson and developed by Dewey. Emerson writes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within."9 This is an image that symbolizes the sense of being and becoming in the path of perfection.... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...world in which we do not live" (JMN 5:270). Later, in "Self-Reliance," we will be told that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards or sages" (E&L 259). In the finale of Nature, following... | |
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