 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, because it is his. In every work of genius we...  Library of Advertising - Page 93edited by - 1911Full view - About this book
 | David Richo - 1991 - 148 pages
...consciously respect in them what we inwardly disavow in ourselves. "In every work of genius, we can recognize our own rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (Emerson). I and It The Shadow turns some of our "I" (what is really ourselves) into "It" (which seems... | |
 | Daniel T. O'Hara - 1992 - 348 pages
...This meditation anticipates Emerson's famous remark from the opening of "Self-Reliance" (1841) that "in every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (259). But who is really speaking in this journal entry? And to whom? We say in answer to both questions,... | |
 | L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 pages
...everyone thinks he has it, only Montaigne got to say it first. As Emerson says in "Self-reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Complacency is seldom a problem with people who are selfobsessed: they get to know themselves too well... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. ... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. 23 This famous declaration reveals a more fundamental reason why "John Milton" seemed to Emerson to... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...GEORGE ELIOT 11819-80). English novelist, editor. Kleismer. in Daniel Deronda, bk. 3, ch. 23 0876). 19 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-82), US essayist, poet, philosopher, fssays, "Self-Reliance" (First Scries,... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [3] Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. [4| Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 356 pages
...shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." ln fact, according to Emerson, "ln every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected...thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."35 Alienation of property would seem to be the standard occurrence when different selves come... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pages
...terms. A characteristic of this authorship is announced in the opening paragraph of "Self-Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even among those readers who know this sentence well, there is resistance in taking Emerson to be naming... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Emerson believed that every individual has the ability to generate new ideas and that everyone is capable... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 pages
...youth on Greek as to have had no time for the things that Plato thought important. Bertrand Russell In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less... | |
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