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Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti . cisirs , are often ,
in fact , mere records of impressions . To judge of their value you must know
where the man was brought up , under what influences , -his nation , his church ,
his ...
Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti . cisirs , are often ,
in fact , mere records of impressions . To judge of their value you must know
where the man was brought up , under what influences , -his nation , his church ,
his ...
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... part been so iapidly hurried from my sight , that my prospects seem continually
solitary , and my heart perpetually desolate . " The last letter in the volume ends
thus : " What you term policy , and which I wish that you had rather called patriotic
...
... part been so iapidly hurried from my sight , that my prospects seem continually
solitary , and my heart perpetually desolate . " The last letter in the volume ends
thus : " What you term policy , and which I wish that you had rather called patriotic
...
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We are not in favor of a stiff , artificial balance of character , of leurning by the
hour , and dividing the attention by rule and line ; but the young should be so
variously called out and disciplined , that they may be sure that it is a genuine
vocation ...
We are not in favor of a stiff , artificial balance of character , of leurning by the
hour , and dividing the attention by rule and line ; but the young should be so
variously called out and disciplined , that they may be sure that it is a genuine
vocation ...
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This fuir occasion , ” too , he let slip , and returned to Europe , broken in health
and spirits , and weakened , as any man must be , who has passed so many
years in occupations which called for only so small a portion of his powers . Did
he ...
This fuir occasion , ” too , he let slip , and returned to Europe , broken in health
and spirits , and weakened , as any man must be , who has passed so many
years in occupations which called for only so small a portion of his powers . Did
he ...
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Unshrinking , he tears apart that glorious fabric which hus been called “ the
crown of creation ; " he sees its beauty and its strength with calm approval , its
weaknesses , its liability to disease , with stern pity or cold indignation .
Unshrinking , he tears apart that glorious fabric which hus been called “ the
crown of creation ; " he sees its beauty and its strength with calm approval , its
weaknesses , its liability to disease , with stern pity or cold indignation .
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Page 81 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 103 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 85 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 255 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And...
Page 81 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 33 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words: — ' ' O thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee, of Thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 335 - Walked of yore the Master-Singers, chanting rude poetic strains. From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild, Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the swallows build.
Page 97 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 83 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 167 - ... service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.
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| Title | Art, Literature, and the Drama, Volume 3 Art, Literature, and the Drama, Arthur Buckminster Fuller Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law |
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| Editor | Arthur Buckminster Fuller |
| Publisher | Roberts brothers, 1875 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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