| Bertrand Lyon - 1925 - 444 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... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, company luster of the firmament of hards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
| Frederick William Beckman, Harry Russell O'Brien, Blair Converse - 1927 - 438 pages
...assignment with each of the five other types of articles. CHAPTER XVI FINDING SUBJECTS FOR FEATURE ARTICLES A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt... | |
| 1915 - 772 pages
...The words of Emerson in his essay upon ' 'Self Reliance" may very properly and fittingly be recalled: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. . . The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is that he can... | |
| William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
...true for you in your heart is true for all men, — that is genius. ... A man should Intuition 199 learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...of truth requires the special epistemological attitude that Emerson sees in his selfreliant heroes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." But there is a darker, even tragic side to the claim that truth comes only by surprise: We cannot be... | |
| Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...of its seekers. Certainly the latter exhibit an independent attitude. Emerson put it more forcibly: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. . . . I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels... | |
| Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. [2] A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [3] Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
| Marcia B. Siegel - 1993 - 356 pages
...for intellectual as well as political independence from the creeds and cultures of the European past. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages," he said, and his call for self-reliance became a marching banner for seekers of a truly American expression... | |
| Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - 1995 - 388 pages
...more watchfully to what it is we are conscious of and altering our posture toward it. For example: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they... | |
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