The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addressesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 |
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses James Russell Lowell Volledige weergave - 1890 |
The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary and political addresses James Russell Lowell Volledige weergave - 1890 |
The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses James Russell Lowell Volledige weergave - 1890 |
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American become believe Ben Jonson better called century certainly Cervantes character civil Coleridge College conscious cracy Dante Dean Stanley democracy Don Quixote duty England English evil experience faculties faith fancy feel forced genius George Eliot give hands Harvard Harvard College hope human humor ideal imagination impulse inspiring instinct interest JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL language learning least less literature living look mainly mankind matter means memory ment mind Molière moral mother nation nature never opinion ourselves party passion perhaps poet political possible practical President question Reformation salutary neglect Sancho seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society sometimes speak sure sympathy taught teaching things thought tical tion to-day Tom Jones true truth universal universal suffrage virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY wholly wise words Wordsworth worth
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Pagina 90 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to. be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 27 - The English race, if they did not invent government by discussion, have at least carried it nearest to perfection in practice. It seems a very safe and reasonable contrivance for occupying the attention of the country, and is certainly a better way of settling questions than by push of pike. Yet, if one should ask it why it should not rather be called government by gabble, it would have to fumble in its pocket a good while before it found the change for a convincing reply. As matters stand, too,...
Pagina 141 - LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies: leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Pagina 202 - Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.
Pagina 142 - And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Pagina 74 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out, At one stride comes the dark: With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Pagina 22 - But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past. They were not seduced by the French fallacy that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of Time that the stuff is woven for such a vesture of their thought...
Pagina 178 - Let it be our hope to make a gentleman of every youth who is put under our charge ; not a conventional gentleman, but a man of culture, a man of intellectual resource, a man of public spirit, a man of refinement, with that good taste which is the conscience of the mind, and that conscience which is~ the good taste of the soul.
Pagina 194 - And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
Pagina 17 - There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.