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... nature exists always . ( The true , great want is of an atmosphere of sympathy in intellectual aims . An artist can afford to be poor , but not to be companionless . It is not well that he should feel pressing on him , in addition to ...
... nature exists always . ( The true , great want is of an atmosphere of sympathy in intellectual aims . An artist can afford to be poor , but not to be companionless . It is not well that he should feel pressing on him , in addition to ...
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... natural condition under which works of art mature . The crystal forms by its own laws , and the granite by its own . Yet moments con- stantly occur to the American student , when he has to bind himself to the mast , like Farragut , to ...
... natural condition under which works of art mature . The crystal forms by its own laws , and the granite by its own . Yet moments con- stantly occur to the American student , when he has to bind himself to the mast , like Farragut , to ...
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... nature after something utterly apart from this world's wealth , it is for this end that a stray voice is needed . It will not take long ; the clamor of the market will reabsorb us to - morrow . - It can scarcely be said that Science and ...
... nature after something utterly apart from this world's wealth , it is for this end that a stray voice is needed . It will not take long ; the clamor of the market will reabsorb us to - morrow . - It can scarcely be said that Science and ...
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... natural history as a branch of agriculture , mathematics for the sake of life - assurance tables , and even a college education as a training for members of Congress . Just so far as any of these departments have failed of these ends ...
... natural history as a branch of agriculture , mathematics for the sake of life - assurance tables , and even a college education as a training for members of Congress . Just so far as any of these departments have failed of these ends ...
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... nature into human words , like Thoreau ; to chase dreams for a lifetime , like Hawthorne ; to labor tranquilly and see a nation imbued with one's thoughts , like Emerson , this it is to pursue literature as an art . - There is ...
... nature into human words , like Thoreau ; to chase dreams for a lifetime , like Hawthorne ; to labor tranquilly and see a nation imbued with one's thoughts , like Emerson , this it is to pursue literature as an art . - There 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.