 | Allen Wilson Porterfield - 1911 - 184 trang
...soon as we are born the world begins to exert a definite influence upon us, and this never ceases. What can we call our own, except energy, strength and will? If I could enumerate everything that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would not be much left... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1915 - 264 trang
...talking about originality ; but what does that mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to act on us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what...will ? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. . . . ' In... | |
 | Brontë Society - 1917 - 396 trang
...discuss them, and, at need, dispute about them. " What do we mean by originality ? " Goethe asks again. " As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon...we call our own except energy, strength, and will ? " " Energy, strength, and will." As writers, Charlotte and Emily possessed them all, to a marvellous... | |
 | Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1917 - 334 trang
...originality," he says, " but what does that mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to act on us and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what...strength and will ? If I could give an account of all I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour. ...... | |
 | Columbia University. Dramatic Museum - 1919 - 128 trang
...things within ourselves; we must therefore return to them from time to time and renew our impressions. "People are always talking about originality; but...will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor." Sunday,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1919 - 126 trang
...things within ourselves; we must therefore return to them from time to time and renew our impressions. "People are always talking about originality; but...will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor." Sunday,... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 346 trang
...personal, but how the subject matter is to become personal we are not told. Mabie quotes from Goethe: " People are always talking about originality, but what...strength and will? If I could give an account of all I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be a small balance in my favor." It is... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 344 trang
...to .become personal' we are not told. Mabie quotes from Goethe : " People are always talking a'bodt originality, but what do they mean?. ...As soon as we are born, the world bfcj£inSf£o wopk ujpdn.us? and this goes dn tp the end. And, after all, what cdn we' tall- • our... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1921 - 326 trang
...fact, error prevails, and is quite easy in the feeling that it has a decided majority on its side. People are always talking about originality; but what...strength, and will? If I could give an account of all 256 that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1921 - 316 trang
...fact, error prevails, and is quite easy in the feeling that it has a decided majority on its side. People are always talking about originality; but what...strength, and will? If I could give an account of all 256 that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.... | |
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People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what can we call our own except energy, strength, and will ? If I could give an... 
