 | 1835 - 616 psl.
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...down. They look backward and not forward. But genius always looks forward. The eyes of man arc set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 psl.
...of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...down. They look backward, and not forward; but genius always looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 psl.
...of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward, and not forward; but genius always... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 psl.
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
 | 1849 - 448 psl.
...; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams."— Nature, pp. 9 — 10, 1 1 — 13, 21 — 22. Most writers are demonized or possessed...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
 | 1850 - 548 psl.
...attention, no one idea ; no one intel| lectual faculty domineers over the rest. Sensation does not I dim reflection, nor does his thought lend its sickly...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 psl.
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
 | 1898 - 404 psl.
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...not forward. But genius looks forward, the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. . ^ Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 psl.
...truth ; and utters truth, or creates. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the inBtitntion of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius....hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward aud not forward. But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are bet in his forehead, not in his hindhead... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 psl.
...of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of... 
