 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 Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. 3. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 402 pages
...fact that his own individuality ought to be steadfastly preserved. As Emerson says in continuation, " Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...deep reader is an Idiot Questioner. He asks, "Who wrote my poem?" Hence Emerson's insistence that: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Criticism is the discourse of the deep tautology — of the solipsist who knows that what he means... | |
 | Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
......" And it moves swiftly to the climactic series of lessons that Emerson is trying to instill: In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. As with Cavell's... | |
 | Jerrold Levinson - 1998 - 344 pages
...artwork that is a brief for duty and nobility may then seem worrisome. But, as Emerson claims, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this."34 Art's capacity to keep alive certain moral perspectives, even if these views diverge radically... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 pages
...superior qualities and ordered it installed." Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay "Self-Reliance" stated: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Colonel Edward M. House wielded an enormous influence in national and international affairs while Woodrow... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. 3387 In souls. 2947 Holy Sonnets Death be not proud, though...called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. 3388 The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tenslon waiting to be struck. ENGELS Friedrich... | |
 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 pages
...requiring human intelligence, are part of this everyday. Of some of these works Emerson writes: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."5 Do not be put off by Emerson's liberal use of "genius." For him genius is, as with Plato,... | |
 | Stephen Mulhall - 1994 - 386 pages
...in which she was uninterested. Cavell sees the latter point as captured in Emerson's claim that 'In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come hack to us with a certain alienated majesty'; and he sees the former as emhodied in Emerson's related... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow... | |
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