Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 страници |
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... direct knowledge of her . No- thing but her presence contains her life . " T is the same with the authentic products of literature . You can never get their beauty at second hand , or feel their power except by direct contact with them ...
... direct knowledge of her . No- thing but her presence contains her life . " T is the same with the authentic products of literature . You can never get their beauty at second hand , or feel their power except by direct contact with them ...
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... into the best atmosphere , and into the presence of the men of greatest charm and force ; but it does a great deal more than that . It acquaints the mind , by direct contact , with the forces which really gov- MERE LITERATURE . 9.
... into the best atmosphere , and into the presence of the men of greatest charm and force ; but it does a great deal more than that . It acquaints the mind , by direct contact , with the forces which really gov- MERE LITERATURE . 9.
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... direct action of their style along permanent lines of thought , contain more history than parliamentary journals . It is not knowledge that moves the world , but ideals , con- victions , the opinions or fancies that have been held or ...
... direct action of their style along permanent lines of thought , contain more history than parliamentary journals . It is not knowledge that moves the world , but ideals , con- victions , the opinions or fancies that have been held or ...
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... direct proportion as they are verifiable ; but literature knows nothing of such tests . truths which it seeks are the truths of self - expres- sion . It is a thing of convictions , of insights , of what is felt and seen and heard and ...
... direct proportion as they are verifiable ; but literature knows nothing of such tests . truths which it seeks are the truths of self - expres- sion . It is a thing of convictions , of insights , of what is felt and seen and heard and ...
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... should Gibbon be so formal , so stately , so elaborate , when he had before his eyes the example of great Tacitus , whose direct , sententious style had outlived by so many hundred years the very lan- guage MERE LITERATURE . 23.
... should Gibbon be so formal , so stately , so elaborate , when he had before his eyes the example of great Tacitus , whose direct , sententious style had outlived by so many hundred years the very lan- guage MERE LITERATURE . 23.
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Страница 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Страница 238 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Страница 145 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Страница 147 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Страница 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Страница 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Страница 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Страница 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Страница 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Страница 133 - Now we who know Mr. Burke, know, that he will be one of the first men in the country.