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... leaves a young man simply with a good preparation for Germany , while the minimum leaves him very ill prepared for America . What we need is a university . Whether this is to be a new creation , or something reared on the foun- dations ...
... leaves a young man simply with a good preparation for Germany , while the minimum leaves him very ill prepared for America . What we need is a university . Whether this is to be a new creation , or something reared on the foun- dations ...
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... leaves a clear field for America . But it is peculiarly important for us to remember that ' we can make no progress through affectation or spasm , but only by accepting the essential laws of art , which are the same for the whole human ...
... leaves a clear field for America . But it is peculiarly important for us to remember that ' we can make no progress through affectation or spasm , but only by accepting the essential laws of art , which are the same for the whole human ...
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... leaves the rest to perish . I know of no tonic more useful for a young writer than to read carefully , in the English Reviews of seventy or eighty years ago , the crushing criticisms on nearly every author of that epoch who has achieved ...
... leaves the rest to perish . I know of no tonic more useful for a young writer than to read carefully , in the English Reviews of seventy or eighty years ago , the crushing criticisms on nearly every author of that epoch who has achieved ...
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... Leaves of but that Grass , " only that he did not burn it afterwards and reserve blow alumihimself for something better A young writer must com- monly plough in his first crop , as the farmer does , to en- rich the soil . Is it ...
... Leaves of but that Grass , " only that he did not burn it afterwards and reserve blow alumihimself for something better A young writer must com- monly plough in his first crop , as the farmer does , to en- rich the soil . Is it ...
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... leaving only memories of wrong behind . Let us not be too exultant ; the hasty wealth of New York may do as little . Intellect in this age is not to be found in the circles of fashion ; it is not found in such society in Europe , it is ...
... leaving only memories of wrong behind . Let us not be too exultant ; the hasty wealth of New York may do as little . Intellect in this age is not to be found in the circles of fashion ; it is not found in such society in Europe , it is ...
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Page 81 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 336 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 317 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Page 201 - ... Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Page 318 - My bosom glowed ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung : IV. In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 74 - Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends : " The piece, you think, is incorrect? why, take it, I 'm all submission, what you 'd have it, make it.
Page 133 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 37 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Page 41 - How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest parts of our nature in it ! When I think of such a mind as Lamb's — when I see how unnoticed remain things of such exquisite and complete perfection, what should I hope for myself, if I had not higher objects in view than fame ? I have seen too little of Italy, and of pictures.
Page 136 - I am not ignorant that my stirring herein will be strangely reported and censured on that side ; and how I shall be able to sustain myself against your Prynnes, Pyms, and Bens, with the rest of that generation of odd names and natures, the Lord knows.