| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 páginas
...a controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought, but what is it for ? What does the man mean ? Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...he cannot rightly express himself today, the same tilings subsist, and will open themselves to-uiorrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — of truth... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 páginas
...a controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought; but what is it for ? What does the man mean ? Whence, whence all these thoughts ? Talent alone cannot...he cannot rightly express himself to-day, the same tilings subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — the burden... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 páginas
...what is it for ? "What does the man mean ? Whence, whence all these thoughts ? Talent alone can not make a writer. There must be a man behind the book...personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctriues there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 páginas
...OF " i'OOR EOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS,'' 'GIRLS WHO EECAME FAMOUS," " STORIES FROM LIFE," « ETC., ETC. "TALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book." — EMERSON. "THE most interesting books to me are the histories of individuals and individual minds,... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 páginas
...children. 304 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Speech at Banquet to Lord Rector, Glas9ow, Nov. 19, 1870. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...otherwise, holding things because they are things. 305 Emerson: Representative Men. Goethe ; or, The Writer. The writer, like a priest, must be exempted... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...children. 304 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Speech at Banquet to Lord Rector, Glasgow, A'oe. 19, 1870. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...there set forth, and which exists to see and state thin,js so, and not otherwise, holding things because they are things. 305 Emerson : Representative... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...poeta, / Quäle 40 sopor fessis— Thy song is to us, О heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. I'irg. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Emerson. Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it 1 To... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 308 páginas
...controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought ; but what is it for ? What does the man mean ? Whence, whence, all these thoughts? Talent alone cannot...otherwise ; holding things because they are things. If he can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow.... | |
| Duke University. Trinity College Historical Society - 1897 - 720 páginas
...purity of their subject matter, the soundness of their principles, and the liberal spirit of the editor. "Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be...otherwise ; holding things because they are things." If this be true, Dennis Heartt was a representative man in journalism as in private life. He was never... | |
| 1897 - 836 páginas
...are born to rule." " Society has no greater interest than the well-being of the literary class." " Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book," and so on. We find him devoting separate essays to distinctly literary topics, such as, " The Man of... | |
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