 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 páginas
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not lit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | 1896 - 374 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacred* ness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the record.... | |
 | Clement King Shorter - 1897 - 244 páginas
...afforded me of gathering up a few impressions of pleasant reading hours. " Every age," says Emerson, " must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." It is true, of course, and as a result the popular favourite of to-day is well-nigh forgotten to-morrow.... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 páginas
...arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth. . . . Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine, also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 páginas
...arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth. . . . Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine, also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,— the act of... 
