 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...  Essays: First Series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...father's spirit. Neale read them because they were marked. Some he understood, others he only felt. "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." "There is a time in every man's education when be arrives at the conviction that he must take himself... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...they thought. 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...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." It is... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
...convention: "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...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty" (27). Critics have found it useful to see rejection in this case as something working along the lines... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1997 - 212 pages
...says this. "As I fell, / swerved, consequently I lie here in a Hell improved by my own making." Ti wo In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. EMERSoN essera or COMPLETION AND ANTITHESIS I first read Nietzsche's essay Of the Advantage and Disadvantage... | |
 | Paul Jay - 1997 - 236 pages
...they thought. 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" (259). Emerson's position here recalls the familiar conceptual division between inner and outer ("books... | |
 | Jerrold Levinson - 1998 - 344 pages
...built. An artwork that is a brief for duty and nobility may then seem worrisome. But, as Emerson claims, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this."34 Art's capacity to keep alive certain moral perspectives, even if these views diverge radically... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...they thought. 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...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." °*• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay on Self Reliance Where Is TOC Headed? Any Important and Complicated... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. 3387 le souls. 2947 Holy Sonnets Death be not proud, though...called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. 3388 The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tenslon waiting to be struck. ENGELS Friedrich... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 pages
...superior qualities and ordered it installed." Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay "Self-Reliance" stated: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Colonel Edward M. House wielded an enormous influence in national and international affairs while Woodrow... | |
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