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... lives . Culture is the training and finishing of the whole man , until he sees physical demands to be merely secondary , and pursues science and art as objects of intrinsic worth . It undoubtedly places the fine arts above the useful ...
... lives . Culture is the training and finishing of the whole man , until he sees physical demands to be merely secondary , and pursues science and art as objects of intrinsic worth . It undoubtedly places the fine arts above the useful ...
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... live on bread and water , if need be , to gain knowledge . What we need is the opportunity of higher education somewhere , that there should be some place in America where a young man may go and study anything that kindles his ...
... live on bread and water , if need be , to gain knowledge . What we need is the opportunity of higher education somewhere , that there should be some place in America where a young man may go and study anything that kindles his ...
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... live entirely on his own ideal . The man who is compelled by his constitution to view literature as an art is more lonely in America than even the painter or the sculptor ; and he has no Italy for a refuge . His practi- cal life may be ...
... live entirely on his own ideal . The man who is compelled by his constitution to view literature as an art is more lonely in America than even the painter or the sculptor ; and he has no Italy for a refuge . His practi- cal life may be ...
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... lives , their hopes , their pas- sions , their despairs , to enrich the one . Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it . How sad seems the intellectual isolation of Voltaire with his " Le peuple n'est ...
... lives , their hopes , their pas- sions , their despairs , to enrich the one . Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it . How sad seems the intellectual isolation of Voltaire with his " Le peuple n'est ...
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... lives to the intellectual service of America , but there is no cause for fear . If we can only avoid incor- ^ porating superficiality into our institutions , literature will come when all is ready , and when it comes will be of the best ...
... lives to the intellectual service of America , but there is no cause for fear . If we can only avoid incor- ^ porating superficiality into our institutions , literature will come when all is ready , and when it comes will be of the best ...
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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.