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" Yet he 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. "
Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ... - Page 64
by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 428 pages
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The Venture Adventure: Strategies For Thriving In The Jungle Of Entrepreneurship

Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - Business & Economics - 1996 - 228 pages
...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." Emerson believed that every individual has the ability to generate new ideas and that everyone is capable...
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The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between

Sanford Budick - Social Science - 1996 - 372 pages
...opening paragraph of the quite early "Self- Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even from those who remember this sentence, there is, 1 have found, resistance in taking Emerson to...
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...I lie here in a Hell improved by my own making." Ti wo In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts — they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. EMERSoN essera or COMPLETION AND ANTITHESIS I first read Nietzsche's essay Of the Advantage and Disadvantage...
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The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole

Lee Rust Brown - History - 1997 - 306 pages
...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" (27). Critics have found it useful to see rejection in this case as something working along the lines...
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Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell

Timothy Gould - Philosophy - 1998 - 256 pages
...climactic series of lessons that Emerson is trying to instill: In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain...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...
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Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection

Jerrold Levinson - Art - 1998 - 344 pages
...nobility may then seem worrisome. But, as Emerson claims, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain...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...
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How To Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie - Self-Help - 2010 - 293 pages
...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...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. 3387 In every work of genius we recognize our own d, 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...
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Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ...

James A. Boon - History - 1999 - 388 pages
..."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...
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The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont

Martin Edmond - Painters - 1999 - 286 pages
...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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