 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
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 páginas
...original remark. — Proverb. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. — Johnson. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Emerson. Full of wise saws and modern instances. — Shakespeare. Cur best thoughts come from others.... | |
 | 1905 - 730 páginas
...dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. — ST Coleridge. 17. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Emerson. 18. Toil is never slavish when it is animated by a glorious purpose. (Compare this saying... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1907 - 852 páginas
...impose upon anyone whose opinion is worth considering. Admitting the truth of Emerson's saying that " next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it," what shall we say of the last quoter thereof, especially if the sentence is two thousand years old,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 páginas
...help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.- -Jeremy Taylor. Nett to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Riuri'son. To »elect well among old things is ill most equal to inventing new ones.— Trübtet.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 358 páginas
...Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and we value in Coleridge his ex« cellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much* possibly...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... | |
 | S. C. Brock - 1909 - 218 páginas
...present these borrowed thoughts, feeling that Emerson's assertion will, in a measure. exonerate us: "Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it." If this work will have- a tendency in any manner to harmonize influences now antagonistic, the author... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 páginas
...bring the testimonial of the scullion in the kitchen. — J. SELDEN Table Talk. MERIT IN QUOTATION NEXT to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. ... We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...were not hard ad money not scarce? Works and Days. Self-trust is the first secret of success. Success. to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.1 Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors,... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1919 - 432 páginas
...a verse in Virgil has deserved a talent." The saying may be applied not only in Emerson's sense — "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it " — but also to those who, haunted by a phrase in the classics, have given it a new meaning which... | |
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