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. |
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... tion , long reading and digesting of those few good authors we have amongst us , the knowledge of men and manners , the freedom of habitudes and conversation with the best company of both sexes , and , in short , without wear- ing off ...
... tion , long reading and digesting of those few good authors we have amongst us , the knowledge of men and manners , the freedom of habitudes and conversation with the best company of both sexes , and , in short , without wear- ing off ...
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James Russell Lowell. have ended unfortunately , but never of any virtuous na- tion ; Providence is engaged too deeply when the cause becomes so general . " In his " account " of the poem in a letter to Sir Robert Howard he says : " I ...
James Russell Lowell. have ended unfortunately , but never of any virtuous na- tion ; Providence is engaged too deeply when the cause becomes so general . " In his " account " of the poem in a letter to Sir Robert Howard he says : " I ...
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... tion . He is an exception to the proverb , and is none the worse pleader that he is always pleading his own cause . The blunder about Chapman is of a kind into which his hasty temperament often betrayed him . He remem- bered that ...
... tion . He is an exception to the proverb , and is none the worse pleader that he is always pleading his own cause . The blunder about Chapman is of a kind into which his hasty temperament often betrayed him . He remem- bered that ...
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... " For Mather , like a true pro- vincial , appropriates only the mannerism , and , as is usual in such cases , betrays all its weakness by the unconscious parody of exaggera tion . here at least was poetry ! This is one of 38 DRYDEN .
... " For Mather , like a true pro- vincial , appropriates only the mannerism , and , as is usual in such cases , betrays all its weakness by the unconscious parody of exaggera tion . here at least was poetry ! This is one of 38 DRYDEN .
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... tion of his happier muse , we shall be inclined to think his example one of the strongest cases against the theory in question . He began his dramatic career , as usual , by rowing against the strong current of his nature , and pulled ...
... tion of his happier muse , we shall be inclined to think his example one of the strongest cases against the theory in question . He began his dramatic career , as usual , by rowing against the strong current of his nature , and pulled ...
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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.