 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 Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life conventional or original 1 What is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 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...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. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...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. Great works... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bard and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...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. Great... | |
 | 1849 - 448 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at nought, and spoke not what men, 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. Great... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke oot what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...across his mind from within, more than the lustre oi the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...across his mind from within, more than the lustre ol the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.... | |
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