The World's Great Classics: Essays of American essayistsTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... genius was unbounded . There are literary hyenas still prowling about his grave . But his pensive brow wears the garland of immortality . His soul was music and his very life - blood was purest art . His ear caught the cadences of that ...
... genius was unbounded . There are literary hyenas still prowling about his grave . But his pensive brow wears the garland of immortality . His soul was music and his very life - blood was purest art . His ear caught the cadences of that ...
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... genius , who leaves behind him one grand pict- ure , in which immortal beauty is embodied , and which is si- lently to spread a true taste in his art , exerts an incomparably higher influence . Now the noblest influence on earth is that ...
... genius , who leaves behind him one grand pict- ure , in which immortal beauty is embodied , and which is si- lently to spread a true taste in his art , exerts an incomparably higher influence . Now the noblest influence on earth is that ...
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... genius runs wild ; " the light within us becomes darkness . " The subtlest reasoners , for want of this , cheat themselves as well as others , and become entangled in the web of their own sophistry . It is a fact well known in the ...
... genius runs wild ; " the light within us becomes darkness . " The subtlest reasoners , for want of this , cheat themselves as well as others , and become entangled in the web of their own sophistry . It is a fact well known in the ...
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... genius , who seem to be born to give law to the minds of the multitude . Undoubtedly nature has her nobility , and sends forth a few to be eminently " lights of the world . " But it is also true that a portion of the same divine fire is ...
... genius , who seem to be born to give law to the minds of the multitude . Undoubtedly nature has her nobility , and sends forth a few to be eminently " lights of the world . " But it is also true that a portion of the same divine fire is ...
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... genius , under a homespun garb as under finery . We have heard of a distinguished author who never wrote so well as when he was full dressed for company . But profound thought and poetical inspiration have most generally visited men ...
... genius , under a homespun garb as under finery . We have heard of a distinguished author who never wrote so well as when he was full dressed for company . But profound thought and poetical inspiration have most generally visited men ...
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Sida 2 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep; forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Sida 35 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Sida 220 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Sida 168 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Sida 220 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Sida 6 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Sida 221 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Sida 351 - In the midst of a gentle rain while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once like an atmosphere sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.
Sida 63 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Sida 244 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.