 | William Ellsworth Smythe - 1921 - 328 pages
...the orator himself realized all that he was saying; or whether he simply followed Emerson's counsel : "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." Consciously or unconsciously, he reflected the Infinite... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 314 pages
...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, " there is a deeper fact in... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1922 - 456 pages
...paragraph just cited — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect v and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within "; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 pages
...great passages, as it is in the paragraph just cited—the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within "; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is 1 First published in Essays: First Series, 1841. 69 his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man...flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | 1924 - 228 pages
...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the... | |
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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. 
