 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...  An American Bible - Page 168edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 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...Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us,than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...of the firmament of bards and sages. Y^t he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. ebbing veins, Inconstant heat and nerveless reins, — s° Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb alien15 ated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...characteristic of this authorship is announced in the opening paragraph of the quite early "Self- Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even from those who remember this sentence, there is, 1 have found, resistance in taking Emerson to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. As with Cavell's allegories of the work of the text as a function of the voice, Emerson's remarks are... | |
 | 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... | |
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