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... Essays: First Series - Página 43por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Stockton Axson, Kenyon Cox, Granville Stanley Hall, Oliver Samuel Tonks - 1913 - 158 páginas
...is it not? "A man dismisses without notice his 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." In a more objective way one might call the attention of pupils, especially boys, to Borglum's "Mares... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 páginas
...and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come...the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced... | |
| Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 páginas
...swiftly to the climactic series of lessons that Emerson is trying to instill: In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come...when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. As with Cavell's allegories of the work of the text as a function of the voice, Emerson's remarks are... | |
| Jerrold Levinson - 1998 - 344 páginas
...brief for duty and nobility may then seem worrisome. But, as Emerson claims, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come...works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this."34 Art's capacity to keep alive certain moral perspectives, even if these views diverge radically... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. 3387 In every work of genius ets Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. 3388 The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tenslon waiting to be struck. ENGELS Friedrich... | |
| Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 páginas
...ordered it installed." Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay "Self-Reliance" stated: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Colonel Edward M. House wielded an enormous influence in national and international affairs while Woodrow... | |
| Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 páginas
...intelligence, are part of this everyday. Of some of these works Emerson writes: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."5 Do not be put off by Emerson's liberal use of "genius." For him genius is, as with Plato,... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 páginas
...and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come...the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced... | |
| James A. Boon - 1999 - 388 páginas
...famous early sentence of "Self-Reliance" I have already had occasion to cite: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." The idea of a majesty alienated from us is a transcription of the idea of the sublime as Kant characterizes... | |
| Martin Edmond - 1999 - 286 páginas
...and uncompromising, we have to look if we want to see. <u 3 H In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 Not long after I began researching this subject, I had a dream in which the body... | |
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