Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the 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 thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of... The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 245by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
| Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...thinking for us, and we will ever be suffering from the timidity that Emerson laments in the words : — A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...and Milton0 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
| 1911 - 796 pages
...declares, "we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back with a certain alienated majesty. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson than this." This is one of the curious things in the... | |
| 1911 - 540 pages
...cause." On the first page of his essay on "Self-reliance," we have the following beautiful sentence: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." This inwardness, this attitude of listening for the accents of the soul, is of the East. "You are,"... | |
| 1911 - 614 pages
...cause." On the first page of his essay on "Self-reliance," we have the following beautiful sentence: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." This inwardness, this attitude of listening for the accents of the soul, is of the East. "You are,"... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firma- 15 ment4 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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| Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 396 pages
...Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...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... | |
| George Rowland Dodson - 1913 - 312 pages
...is one of the deepest and clearest yet enjoyed by man. In his essay on " Self-reliance," he says, " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." This was his own method which he employed with marvelous... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
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