 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
 | 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... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 386 pages
...fact that his own individuality ought to be steadfastly preserved. As Emerson says in continuation, "Great works of art have no more affecting lesson...than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with good-humoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 384 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his 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 strange that any one who has recognised the individuality of all works of lasting influence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...alienated majesty. Great works 20 *• 66 of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. Thej teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with...on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will sa3' 5 with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 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...than this: they teach us to abide by our spontaneous expression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 pages
...fact that his own individuality ought to be steadfastly preserved. As Emerson says in continuation, "Great works of art have no more affecting lesson...than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with goodhumoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his 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 strange that any one who has recognised the individuality of all works of lasting influence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house. - POETRY AND IMAGINATION + In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — SELF-RELIANCE + 1 owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common and... | |
 | 1924 - 1042 pages
...dignity and fineness of man, and with a comprehensive generosity is inclusive in his statements: — ID every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ... for all men have thoughts whereof the universe is the celebration. The great man is he who, in... | |
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