 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 390 pages
...studying any such question as this to run through some one thing and note whatever is to the point. 1. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." 2. " What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes,... | |
 | 1900 - 436 pages
...be dismissed as fanciful. How many times we may have entertained an angel unawares! Says Emerson : "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...ourselves with this vain optimism. Let us give up pure contemplation, and act ! " A man," says Emerson, " should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." But, so soon as this gleam of light is detected and watched, we 31 The Victory of the Will should project... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to 46 detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...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... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1899 - 288 pages
...Emerson, the greatest prophet of self-reliance, says : " A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. . . . The power which resides in him... | |
 | George Eliot - 1899 - 308 pages
...nothing is the young gtudent so timid and uncertain as in regard to his own opinion. Unless he learns " to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within," it will soon be obscured and lost. TOPICS FOR STUDY. PART I. 1. When and where does the plot of " Silas... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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 - 1902 - 206 pages
...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. VYet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across hia mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
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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. 
