Literary and Political AddressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 322 strani |
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American asked become believe Ben Jonson better called century certainly Cervantes character civil Coleridge College conscious cracy Dante Dean Stanley democracy Don Quixote duty England English evil experience faculties faith fancy feel forced genius George Eliot give hands Harvard Harvard College hope human humor ideal imagination impulse inspiring instinct interest JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL language learning least less literature living look mainly mankind matter means memory ment mind Molière moral mother nation nature never opinion ourselves party passion perhaps poet political practical President question Reformation salutary neglect Sancho seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society sometimes speak sure sympathy taught teaching things thought tical tion to-day Tom Jones true truth universal universal suffrage virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY wholly wise words Wordsworth worth
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Stran 90 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to. be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Stran 203 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Stran 141 - LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies: leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Stran 17 - There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Stran 202 - Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
Stran 55 - No less, man, bounded, yearning to be free, May so project his surplusage of soul In search of body, so add self to self By owning what lay ownerless before, — So find, so fill full, so appropriate forms — That, although nothing which had never life Shall get life from him, be, not having been, Yet, something dead may get to live again...
Stran 142 - And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Stran 27 - A king lived long ago, In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now ; And the king's locks curled, Disparting o'er a forehead full As the milk-white space 'twixt horn and horn Of some sacrificial bull — Only calm as a babe new-born : For he was got to a sleepy mood, So safe from all decrepitude...
Stran 51 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Stran 194 - And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.