 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 - 1915 - 200 pages
...books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect 27 and watch that gleam ' of light which flashes across...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we 5 recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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...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... | |
 | John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...descriptive catalogue I could never make you know what I meant by a bright spring day— George Eliot 9. 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... | |
 | Alfred Hall - 1915 - 260 pages
...to bring even his words to the test of human experience, thought, and aspiration. Emerson said : ' 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.'1 Could Jesus have... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 348 pages
...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.' A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.' It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
 | 1916 - 548 pages
...declares with the conviction, at once proud and humble, of one conscious of his own high spiritual gifts, "to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. " That gleam is the inflowing of God, or of Nature, which is the manifestation of God, or of the Over-Soul,... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1916 - 326 pages
...desire to know that led him to write the hymn. What a profound truth Emerson said when he wrote : " 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 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... | |
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