Literary and Political AddressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 322 ページ |
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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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90 ページ - 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.
51 ページ - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
203 ページ - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
141 ページ - 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...
17 ページ - There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
202 ページ - Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
43 ページ - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
22 ページ - But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past. They were not seduced by the French fallacy that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin.
74 ページ - 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.
142 ページ - 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.