 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.  Rough-hewn - Page 126by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous... | |
 | Bernard C. Ruggles - 1921 - 104 pages
...power of silent demand will bring forth your product in lines of excellence and worth. Emerson says, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain, alienated majesty." The one who uttered them merely had the faith and courage to lift up his voice. So he was given the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...flashes across his mind from within. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...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... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
...of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...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... | |
 | Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
...verses. ..." And it moves swiftly to the climactic series of lessons that Emerson is trying to instill: In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this."34 Art's capacity to keep alive... | |
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