 | 1885 - Liczba stron: 218
...authors, Lander replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals." It is Emerson, I think, who says: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." But, sir, our Senator was always equal to the need. He had a masterful good sense, which mastered the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - Liczba stron: 354
...Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken." Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating...of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare M charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his originals.... | |
 | William T. Ross - 1887 - Liczba stron: 362
...High and Very High pitch interchangeable ; also those under Low and Very Low. MIDDLE PITCH : — 1. Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it. 2. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew ; And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - Liczba stron: 426
...All rights reserved. Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. — ABD EL-KADER Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — EMEKSON Books are the beehives of thought ; laconics, the honey taken from them. — **** Proverbs... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - Liczba stron: 720
...Quotation. Genius borrows nobly. 4595 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. 4596 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. I am but a gatherer and disposer... | |
 | 1890 - Liczba stron: 580
...great." One can often quote others only in order to better to express himself. Emerson tells us that " next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." This valuable work contain ample indexes for finding the names of authors, translators, quotations,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - Liczba stron: 590
...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. . . . "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." . . . The "Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned. The... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - Liczba stron: 574
...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. . . . "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." . . . The "Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned. The... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - Liczba stron: 616
...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. . . . "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." . . . The "Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned. The... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - Liczba stron: 598
...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. . . . "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." . . . The "Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned. 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. 
