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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 157
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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American Prose (1607-1865)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...
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American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ...

George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...
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American Ideals

Norman Foerster - 1917 - 444 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. lnnl-g fnrward: the eyes of man are set, in Jhis forehead: not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates....
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A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Set Forth as His Life Essay

Denton Jaques Snider - 1921 - 398 pages
...Hence the letter killeth: the danger of script is prescription. The function of genius is to create: "if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his." Use your own creative moments creatively; when you "can read God directly, the hour is too precious...
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates. To create, — to create, — is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be, if the man...
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The Praise of Folly: And Other Papers

Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...world, of value, is the active soul. The book, the college, the institution of any kind, 103 stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. Books are for the scholar's idle times. They serve us best when they aim, not to drill, but to create...
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...he secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,but in being uninteresting. — BEAUTY + (jenius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius Creates. — THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1 he schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their...
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A Little Book of Friendship

Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 pages
...college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. ... In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended...
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