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... PRAISE , 54 III . PERIODICAL LITERATURE , 61 IV . " THE BLUES " AND THEIR REMEDY , 72 V. THE MODESTY OF GENIUS , 85 VI . SENSITIVENESS TO CRITICISM , VII . THE IDEAL AND THE REAL , VIII . FAT vs. LEAN , IX . MEMORY AND ITS MARVELS , X ...
... PRAISE , 54 III . PERIODICAL LITERATURE , 61 IV . " THE BLUES " AND THEIR REMEDY , 72 V. THE MODESTY OF GENIUS , 85 VI . SENSITIVENESS TO CRITICISM , VII . THE IDEAL AND THE REAL , VIII . FAT vs. LEAN , IX . MEMORY AND ITS MARVELS , X ...
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... even more worthy than it now is to be the mother - tongue , not only of the two great brother nations whose precious legacy it is , but of the whole family of man . THE DUTY OF PRAISE . MONG the minor duties of LITERARY STYLE . 53.
... even more worthy than it now is to be the mother - tongue , not only of the two great brother nations whose precious legacy it is , but of the whole family of man . THE DUTY OF PRAISE . MONG the minor duties of LITERARY STYLE . 53.
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And Other Essays William Mathews. THE DUTY OF PRAISE . MONG the minor duties of life , " says Sydney Smith , " AM " I hardly know any more important than that of not praising where praise is not due . Reputation is one of the prizes for ...
And Other Essays William Mathews. THE DUTY OF PRAISE . MONG the minor duties of life , " says Sydney Smith , " AM " I hardly know any more important than that of not praising where praise is not due . Reputation is one of the prizes for ...
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... praise ! Why do we so often wait till our loved ones are torn from us by death before we give full expression to our affection ? Of what use to the faithful wife whom we lay in the grave , are the tears we shed over her , the endearing ...
... praise ! Why do we so often wait till our loved ones are torn from us by death before we give full expression to our affection ? Of what use to the faithful wife whom we lay in the grave , are the tears we shed over her , the endearing ...
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... praise begets love : and " not only are human hearts more easily governed by love than by fear , but fear often leads less to the correction of faults and the struggle for merits than toward the cunning concealment of the one and the ...
... praise begets love : and " not only are human hearts more easily governed by love than by fear , but fear often leads less to the correction of faults and the struggle for merits than toward the cunning concealment of the one and the ...
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Page 233 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 272 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 259 - A poet is the combined product of such internal powers as modify the nature of others, and of such external influences as excite and sustain these powers; he is not one, but both. Every man's mind is, in this respect, modified by all the objects of Nature and art; by every word and every suggestion which he ever admitted to act upon his consciousness; 02 The Faerie Queene, 7, 7, 46. it is the mirror upon which all forms are reflected and in which they compose one form.
Page 300 - ... please — to a poor servant girl, while she has been inquiring of him the way to some street — in such a posture of unforced civility, as neither to embarrass her in the acceptance, nor himself in the offer, of it. He was no dangler, in the common acceptation of the word, after women : but he reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it came before him, womanhood. I have seen him — nay, smile not — tenderly escorting a market-woman, whom he had encountered in a shower, exalting his...
Page 180 - Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong.
Page 188 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Page 108 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them; and that an author whose works are likely to live is very unwise if he stoops to wrangle with detractors whose works are certain to die.
Page 79 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 313 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 78 - I began this letter yesterday, but could not finish it till now. I have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy.