 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 they, thought. A...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: 1. What makes a poem conventional ? Is Longfellow's Psalm of Life... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Mnsps, Platr^gjH Mil ton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man...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 Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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 they thought. A man...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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 they thought. A...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...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 they thought. A man...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 - Cuba - 1854 - 676 pages
...every man recognizes as the voice of his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man...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.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...would retain them ; and this again is one of its excellent effects ; for, as a great author says, " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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 they thought. A man...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. Jp <every work of genius we recognize our own rejected 1 thoughts : they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1858 - 702 pages
...every man recognizes as the voice of his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they conic back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... 
