Import and Value of the Popular Lecturing of the Day: A Discourse Pronounced Before the Literary Societies of the University of Vermont, August 3, 1842University Press, C. Goodrich, 1842 - 43 страници |
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Страница 35 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Страница 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Страница 5 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Страница 39 - Faust. If you do not feel it, you will not get it by hunting for it,— if it does not gush from the soul, and subdue the hearts of all hearers with original delight. Sit at it...
Страница 42 - Try what can be got by honest means. — Be no tinkling fool! — Reason and good sense express themselves with little art. And when you are seriously intent on say.ing' something, is it necessary to hunt for words? Your speeches, I say, which are so highly polished, in which ye crisp the shreds of humanity, are unrefreshing as the mistwind which whistles through the withered leaves in autumn.
Страница 9 - that that's the fashion at present among my tribe j sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as 'out of the fashion, you know.
Страница 32 - Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Страница 24 - But the noise and dust having subsided, there is left us, of those very times, works which men will not willingly let die. Noise and smoke causeless do not come. There is a force at bottom which will ultimately work itself clear, and produce good and substantial fruits. There is force somewhere, or no foam and dust would rise ; but there is little force in the foam and dust themselves. And the immediate instruments are only instruments, working without knowing what they do, like puppeta, (lancing...
Страница 23 - Firm pwice, and healthful, quiet energy of soul, are the fruit of victory, and of victory only. Therefore, though attended with a 'troubled sea of noises, and hoarse disputes,' the contest, with its hubbub and vain clamor, is the door to quietness and clear intelligence. Pedantry and pretension, quackery...
Страница 23 - ... affairs, causing even the wrath of man to praise Him, and making folly itself the guide to wisdom. Hooker characterized his own times as 'full of tongue, and weak of brain ;' and Luther said to the same effect, of the preachers and scholars of his day: 'If they were not permitted to prate and clatter about it, they would burst with the greatness of their art and science, so hot and eager are they to teach.