Literary and Political AddressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 322 pagina's |
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American 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 possible 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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 202 - Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 43 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 74 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out, At one stride comes the dark: With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Pagina 75 - Li ruscelletti, che de' verdi colli Del Casentin discendon giuso in Arno, Facendo i lor canali e freddi e molli, Sempre mi stanno innanzi, e non indarno ; Che 1' imagine lor via più m' asciuga, Che il male, ond' io nel volto mi discarno. La rigida giustizia, che mi fruga, Tragge cagion del luogo, ov' io peccai, A metter più gli miei sospiri in fuga.
Pagina 194 - 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.
Pagina 77 - How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.