University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, Oplag 1–3The University, 1918 |
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Side 16
... speak our language ; they read Paradise Lost . " And again , " I do believe with you that Franklin formed the American character as we now see it . " In connection with this last remark it may be noted that years afterward , in ...
... speak our language ; they read Paradise Lost . " And again , " I do believe with you that Franklin formed the American character as we now see it . " In connection with this last remark it may be noted that years afterward , in ...
Side 28
... speak French , they read , according to this authority , but few French books . In the same connection as the preceding may be noticed an item in the Scot's Magazines under the heading of " Foreign Literary Notes . " The first fair for ...
... speak French , they read , according to this authority , but few French books . In the same connection as the preceding may be noticed an item in the Scot's Magazines under the heading of " Foreign Literary Notes . " The first fair for ...
Side 36
... speaking of Adams's Letters on Silesia : 19 The style of Mr. Adams is in general very tolerable English ; which , for American composition , is no moderate praise . A few national peculiarities , perhaps we might still venture to call ...
... speaking of Adams's Letters on Silesia : 19 The style of Mr. Adams is in general very tolerable English ; which , for American composition , is no moderate praise . A few national peculiarities , perhaps we might still venture to call ...
Side 37
... speaking , and , if said to be either , it is the perfection of badness . The few citations in the present chapter will give some idea of the way in which English and Scottish critics treated America ; and this will be made more evident ...
... speaking , and , if said to be either , it is the perfection of badness . The few citations in the present chapter will give some idea of the way in which English and Scottish critics treated America ; and this will be made more evident ...
Side 58
... speaking of himself , and says : We every where trace the same features and the same character- istic manners ; the same strong , but hard and coarse lineaments ; the same bold and daring front ; the same awkward and desultory gait ...
... speaking of himself , and says : We every where trace the same features and the same character- istic manners ; the same strong , but hard and coarse lineaments ; the same bold and daring front ; the same awkward and desultory gait ...
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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...