Texas Review, Volumen3University of Texas., 1918 |
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... writing . There is a heavy pre- dominance of elegies , odes , epistles , addresses , and biblical paraphrases . The verse is generally the turgid , ornate , formal , colorless and feelingless variety which flooded Eng- land and America ...
... writing . There is a heavy pre- dominance of elegies , odes , epistles , addresses , and biblical paraphrases . The verse is generally the turgid , ornate , formal , colorless and feelingless variety which flooded Eng- land and America ...
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... writer of sprightly but mediocre poems in the Boston newspapers and magazines , over the signature Philenia . The titles of her selections are a " Description of the Prospect from Beacon Hill , " an " Ode to the President , " an ...
... writer of sprightly but mediocre poems in the Boston newspapers and magazines , over the signature Philenia . The titles of her selections are a " Description of the Prospect from Beacon Hill , " an " Ode to the President , " an ...
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... business office if their real ambition in life were to write a Greek grammar . Students should be expected to attend to their work with the degree of faithfulness and promptitude that characterize EDUCATION AND TRADITION 51.
... business office if their real ambition in life were to write a Greek grammar . Students should be expected to attend to their work with the degree of faithfulness and promptitude that characterize EDUCATION AND TRADITION 51.
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... writer of the one form of drama should be master of the other form as well . The element of Plato's writings most obviously dramatic is perhaps their pictorial settings . The Protagoras affords us two striking examples of it . In the ...
... writer of the one form of drama should be master of the other form as well . The element of Plato's writings most obviously dramatic is perhaps their pictorial settings . The Protagoras affords us two striking examples of it . In the ...
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... . You open , for example , with a soliloquy on the sorrows of life . Apart from the sheer uselessness of such a performance , you violate the primary rule in story - writing , which demands that A Note on Claude Tillier Samuel Roth.
... . You open , for example , with a soliloquy on the sorrows of life . Apart from the sheer uselessness of such a performance , you violate the primary rule in story - writing , which demands that A Note on Claude Tillier Samuel Roth.
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Página 322 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 286 - To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace.
Página 204 - And what are you reading, Miss ? " " Oh ! it is only a novel ! " replies the young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Página 285 - It is true that we are called a democracy; for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit.
Página 325 - Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before...
Página 285 - And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; at home the style of our life is refined; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish melancholy. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us, so that we enjoy the goods of other countries as freely as of our own.
Página 203 - The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had...
Página 159 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from...
Página 346 - whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.
Página 206 - No ; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married. It is almost ridiculous. Poor woman ! I will comfort him as well as I can, but I do not undertake to be good to her children. She had better not leave any.