University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, Oplag 1–3The University, 1918 |
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... Nature he has gener- ally copied from the copiers of her copiests , and those Europeans . However he is , when he pleases to exert himself , by no means defi- cient in energy or even elegance . But we will venture to say , that the ...
... Nature he has gener- ally copied from the copiers of her copiests , and those Europeans . However he is , when he pleases to exert himself , by no means defi- cient in energy or even elegance . But we will venture to say , that the ...
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... nature presents a thousand novel objects to the observer , is certainly more favourable to the descriptive arts and to the efforts of imagination , than those regions where art has exhausted all her powers . " And scarce a hillock rears ...
... nature presents a thousand novel objects to the observer , is certainly more favourable to the descriptive arts and to the efforts of imagination , than those regions where art has exhausted all her powers . " And scarce a hillock rears ...
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... nature pieces , his playful trifles , and his genuine poems of sentiment were so little known in Amer- ica , it is not surprising that they should be almost wholly unknown in England . Some detached poems did , however , become current ...
... nature pieces , his playful trifles , and his genuine poems of sentiment were so little known in Amer- ica , it is not surprising that they should be almost wholly unknown in England . Some detached poems did , however , become current ...
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... nature of its sub- ject , connected with the time of its appearance and the country of its author , than could be claimed for it on the very questionable ground of its intrinsic worth . As a work of immense labour and proportionate bulk ...
... nature of its sub- ject , connected with the time of its appearance and the country of its author , than could be claimed for it on the very questionable ground of its intrinsic worth . As a work of immense labour and proportionate bulk ...
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... natural , and the language correct . The collection consists of several pieces , of which we best like The Wizard of the Rock . Quabi , or the Virtues of Nature , a sentimental Indian tale by Mrs. Sarah Wentworth Morton , one of the ...
... natural , and the language correct . The collection consists of several pieces , of which we best like The Wizard of the Rock . Quabi , or the Virtues of Nature , a sentimental Indian tale by Mrs. Sarah Wentworth Morton , one of the ...
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Side 19 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Side 278 - Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake,' ' has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Side 27 - I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Side 20 - Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering: but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Side 68 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called architeklonike, which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Side 19 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Side 112 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Side 20 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Side 168 - The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul...
Side 26 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas...