 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
 | Ralph Waldo Trine - 1917 - 258 pages
...whose lives have been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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." Emerson,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men did, 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... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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 his. <I In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | 1923 - 434 pages
...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they g the weary way we tread, s And sorrow crown each...shun, no darkness dread. Our hearts still whisperi luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 pages
...within themselves. "Trust thyself," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "every heart vibrates to that iron string. 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." The man who would accomplish exceptional things should... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - 248 pages
...all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of bards and sages." We have seen several examples of how this method works in natural science... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...his. In every work of genius we recognize our own re' jected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 386 pages
...Emerson,1 "is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...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... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 pages
...more watchfully to what it is we are conscious of and altering our posture toward it. For example: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they... | |
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