...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...wise man. History and exact science he must learn by aborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their ndispensable office, — to teach elements....

...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...— all the rest he rejects, were it never so many tunes Plato's and Shakspeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise...

...a book, than to be warped by its attraction "The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances...he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's." — Emeraon. "I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through...

...record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, alies) even in the extremeness of the folly which...indeed, by the wild overstrained air of vivacity with Shakespeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and...

...Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle,— and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History...

...Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle, — and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times...Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable off1ce, — to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to...

...passage. the sentence: "The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part,—only the authentic utterances of the oracle;— all the...rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's or Shakspeare's," 27 and added in the margin: "true of RWE" Mixed with his frequent enthusiasm, he...

...his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part,—only the authentic utterances of the oracle;—all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and...

...allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . . . there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History . . . he must learn by laborious reading" (W, 1: 92-3). In what follows, I want to offer a reading...

...instruments."*' Moreover, Emerson proposed that there is an art of "creative reading": The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's.4' Or, as he put it elsewhere, "Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare....