 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.  The North American Review - Página 554editado por - 1868Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Fabiola hospital association - 1899 - 94 páginas
...rest is rust. — Sir Walter Scott. The ornament of a house is the friends who visit it. — Emerson. Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it. — Emerson. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. — Emerson. Nothing bursts forth all at... | |
 | 1901 - 140 páginas
...his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...Social Aims. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Quotation and Originality. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.1 Letters and Social Aimt. Quotation and Originality. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 280 páginas
...contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken." Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 páginas
...contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken." ' Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 páginas
...was correct in all things and in quotation he was precision itself. Accepting Emerson's dictum that " next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it," Mr. Crawford should stand very high among the literary men of his day. For many years he enriched the... | |
 | 1903 - 196 páginas
...by a comma; or, if formally introduced, by a colon. (See Rule 2 for colon, page 44.) Emerson said, " Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." 14. Rule 8. Transposed Parts. — A phrase or clause out of its natural order, or not closely connected... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 páginas
...Social Ainu. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Quotation and Originality. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first qUoter of it.1 Letters and Soeia/ Ainn. Qnotation and Originality. When Shakespeare is charged with dehts to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 496 páginas
...contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken." * Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 páginas
...contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken." 1 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his... | |
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