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" There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is... "
Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs - Page 85
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 542 pages
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Working Principles of Rhetoric ...

John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 pages
...must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world." — EMERSON, The American Scholar, Works, Vol. i, p. 94. neither impulse nor ability to make its stores...
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The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and ...

John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 704 pages
...must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world." — EMERSON, Tlu American Scholar, Works, Vol. i, p. 94. neither impulse nor ability to make its stores...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as I broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...carry out the wealth of the Indies/' There is, then, creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold iallusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world....
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...creative reading as well as creative writing./ When the mind is braced by labor and inven-[| tion, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days...
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Elements of English Composition: Designed for Use in Secondary Schools

Tuley Francis Huntington - 1904 - 412 pages
...applying it to every occasion that arises, is far better."1 Emerson had it in mind, when he said that " one must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb...Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world."2 It is this sort of reading that will save you from thoughtless...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...must cany out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days...
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The Art of Thinking

Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1904 - 182 pages
...reading as well as creative writing. Emerson on When the mind is braced by labour and readln«invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...the sense of our author is as broad as the world." As if he had said : " When you read, connect the thoughts of the author with your previously ascertained...
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