Among My BooksFields, Osgood, & Company, 1898 - 380 من الصفحات This collection of writings by James Russell Lowell includes a critical analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophical ideas with respect to numerous other authors' criticisms. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 83
الصفحة 5
... thing pos terity is seldom wont to do . On the losing side in poli- tics , it is true of his polemical writings as of Burke's , whom in many respects he resembles , and especially in that supreme quality of a reasoner , that his mind ...
... thing pos terity is seldom wont to do . On the losing side in poli- tics , it is true of his polemical writings as of Burke's , whom in many respects he resembles , and especially in that supreme quality of a reasoner , that his mind ...
الصفحة 7
... things as they might be , is schooled by circumstances to see them as people say they are , to read God in a prose ... thing to that , -a thorough faith in himself . He was , moreover , a man of singularly open soul , and of a temper ...
... things as they might be , is schooled by circumstances to see them as people say they are , to read God in a prose ... thing to that , -a thorough faith in himself . He was , moreover , a man of singularly open soul , and of a temper ...
الصفحة 16
... thing not to be reasoned about , ineffable , divine ; if con- trary to the rules , so much the worse for them . It may be conjectured that Dryden's Puritan associations may have stood in the way of his more properly poetic cul- ture ...
... thing not to be reasoned about , ineffable , divine ; if con- trary to the rules , so much the worse for them . It may be conjectured that Dryden's Puritan associations may have stood in the way of his more properly poetic cul- ture ...
الصفحة 18
... thing solid and doughty in the man , that can rise from defeat , the stuff of which victories are made in due time , when we are able to choose our position better , and the sun is at our back . Hitherto his performances have been ...
... thing solid and doughty in the man , that can rise from defeat , the stuff of which victories are made in due time , when we are able to choose our position better , and the sun is at our back . Hitherto his performances have been ...
الصفحة 19
... thing ! no more That Man ! O human glory ! vain ! O death ! O wings ! O worthless world ! O transitory things ! Yet dwelt that greatness in his shape decayed That still , though dead , greater than Death he laid , And , in his altered ...
... thing ! no more That Man ! O human glory ! vain ! O death ! O wings ! O worthless world ! O transitory things ! Yet dwelt that greatness in his shape decayed That still , though dead , greater than Death he laid , And , in his altered ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admirable Annus Mirabilis Aurengzebe believe Ben Jonson blank verse called century character charm Châteaubriand common confess criticism dæmon death Devil divine doubt Dryden England English faith fancy father feeling French genius German give Goethe Greek Hamlet hand hath Herr Stahr human imagination JOHN DRYDEN John Winthrop Johnson judgment kind language Latin learned Lessing Lessing's letter literary literature living look Lord Macbeth matter means ment Milton mind modern Molière moral nature never once original passage passion perhaps persons Petrarch phrase play poem poet poetic poetry Polybius Preface prose Puritan reason rhyme Rigoux Rousseau satire says scepticism seems sense sentiment Shakespeare shape sometimes soul speak spirit style sure tells Theocritus thing thought tion tragedy translation true truth verse Voltaire whole wholly Winthrop witchcraft witches Wittenberg words writing wrote
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 214 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
الصفحة 187 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
الصفحة 240 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
الصفحة 324 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
الصفحة 264 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
الصفحة 11 - Like rose-buds, stuck i' th' lily-skin about. Each little pimple had a tear in it, To wail the fault its rising did commit : eo Which, rebel-like, with its own lord at strife, Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life. Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin, The cabinet of a richer soul within ? No comet need foretell his change drew on, Whose corpse might seem a constellation.
الصفحة 4 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
الصفحة 356 - Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a man is.
الصفحة 213 - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
الصفحة 10 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, Than his own mother university. Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.