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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 49
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre oi the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...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...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...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...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...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...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibity." But, in fine, we should notice the gentle, pacific effects which the poetry...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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. Jp <every work of genius we recognize our own rejected 1 thoughts : they come back to us with a certain...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...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...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they conic back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson...
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The Gleaner

1864 - 98 pages
...Essay entitled "Self Reliance," ! makes the following remarks : — " In great works i of art there is no more affecting lesson for us than this : They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with a good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly...
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