 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts... | |
 | 1903 - 664 pages
...Buffon's works — it is not there.* Emerson, in his essay on ' Quotation and Originality,' says : — " Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." And, until proved otherwise, to Hérault de Séchelles belongs the honour in the present instance,... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 pages
...intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...quoter of it, Many will read the book before one thinks oi quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 306 pages
...intelligence. They fit all our facts 7* like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 330 pages
...intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as lie has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 300 pages
...ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is (he first quofer of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genins borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...dangerous forms of paraphrase. Emerson says that " there are great ways of borrowing," ir.d that " next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it ; " but he cannot have meant to give any sanction for a gypsy-like disfiguration in the process of... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 pages
...BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, AND NEW ORLEANS. '877. COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY HENRY J. FOX. PREFACE. "Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it." — Emerson. "When found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. IN this volume the author gives the... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 478 pages
...& COMPANY, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, AND NEW ORLEANS. COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY HENRY J. FOX. Ë N ' PREFACE, " Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it." — Emerson. " When found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. IN this volume the author gives the... | |
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. 
