 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1922 - 486 trang
...his age, now in furious rebellion, but never uninfluenced by them. He himself declared to Eckermann: "As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end." That Goethe transcended the bizarre romanticists of his own day, the Tiecks and Nodiers and Coleridges,... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 trang
...Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. WILLIAM SHAKSPEBE — Othello 19. ORIGINALITY People are always talking about originality;...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. THE ORAL... | |
 | Thomas Hearne Bailey Whipple - 1924 - 204 trang
...commonplace, and all the forces and power of genius. CHAPTER III PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS TO BE CULTIVATED ORIGINALITY People are always talking about originality,...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. — GOETHE.... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - 1925 - 438 trang
...seems to answer this question for us. In one of his recorded conversations with Eckermann, he says : ' 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 favour.' As mentioned... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 trang
...than looking out of a window, or playing a game at whist in a close room amid the smoke of cigars. 28 People are always talking about originality; but 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. 1 Tyrtsus,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 trang
...than looking out of a window, or playing a game at whist in a close room amid the smoke of cigars. 28 People are always talking about originality; but 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. 29 What seduces... | |
 | Robert E. Ramsay - 1928 - 488 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...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.' ' Quite... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 trang
...prevails, and is quite easy in the feeling that it has a decided majority on its side. [May 12, 1825] People are always talking about originality; but 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. However,... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1912 - 488 trang
...howsoever vague, but is indelibly registered for future weal or woe. "As soon as we are born," says Goethe, "the world begins to work upon us and this goes on to the end." As the senses of sight, taste, hearing, etc., develop more and more, all the objects of nature operate... | |
 | Theophilus Ernest Martin Boll - 1973 - 358 trang
...not because it is antique, but because it is strong, fresh, joyous, and sound. What does originality mean? As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon us, and so it goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will. In art and poetry... | |
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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... 
