 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 430 pages
...and knowledge of God beyond the cosmos" (Agon, 4). Bloom cites the Emerson of Self-Reliance on this: Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God...set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. . . . When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | Adriana Destro, Mauro Pesce - 2002 - 204 pages
...the apostles say this; but what canst thou say?" The third is by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance}: "See what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speaks the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul". The fourth is from Marcel Proust:... | |
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Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. 
