 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men. but what they, thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognize... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognise... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...ton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognize... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognise... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 - 1849 - 270 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognise... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Milton,, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognise... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what •men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognize... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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 recognize... | |
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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. 
