 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 - 1901 - 554 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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...detect and watch that gleam of i", light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses...rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain 20 alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson than this. They teach us to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. VYet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...Emerson, " is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across hia mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | George W. Rine - 1902 - 290 pages
...Men must have recreation: literature and art furnish that which is most pure, innocent, and refining. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. Study... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...Milton, is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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...every work of genius we recognize our own rejected Jioughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Great works of art have no more... | |
 | Mary Churchill Ripley - 1904 - 588 pages
...advice of Emerson, who says : " Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string." * * * * * "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." CHAPTER XIII DESIGNS WE find ourselves face to face with the necessity of more careful examination... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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...sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, i because it is his. Q, Tn every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back... | |
 | 1905 - 330 pages
...the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. — COLTON. " A 'man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." "The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth; The impulse of a wordless prayer,... | |
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