 | Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 páginas
...is to Emerson as history is to Barth: "we reap what we sow," for "when the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion" (Essays, 59).* Or as Barth says of Calvin's approach to the Scriptures: "The relation of the Bible... | |
 | Barbara Murphy, Estelle M. Rankin - 2007 - 306 páginas
...American colleges will recede in their public importance ..." E. "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion." 41. According to the speaker, the characteristics of the discerning reader include all of the following... | |
 | 1965 - 734 páginas
...Indies." — There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The... | |
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is... 
