Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of MichiganHarcourt, Brace, 1924 - 428 páginas |
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... of the most delightful fields of literature , those who have made this volume will feel well repaid . THOMAS E. RANKIN . GEORGE STARR LASHER . AMOS R. MORRIS . CONTENTS OF STUDIES1 FRANCIS BACON Francis Bacon , statesman , iv Preface.
... of the most delightful fields of literature , those who have made this volume will feel well repaid . THOMAS E. RANKIN . GEORGE STARR LASHER . AMOS R. MORRIS . CONTENTS OF STUDIES1 FRANCIS BACON Francis Bacon , statesman , iv Preface.
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... feel , do , just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences ... feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself . Instead of a friend in a post - chaise or in a Tilbury to exchange ...
... feel , do , just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences ... feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself . Instead of a friend in a post - chaise or in a Tilbury to exchange ...
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... feel , think , and be myself again . Instead of an awk- ward silence , broken by attempts at wit or dull common- places , mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence . No one likes puns , allitera ...
... feel , think , and be myself again . Instead of an awk- ward silence , broken by attempts at wit or dull common- places , mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence . No one likes puns , allitera ...
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... feel in a kind of dumb show , it is insipid ; if you have to explain it , it is making a toil of a pleasure . You ... feeling in the air , a tone in the color of a cloud which hits your fancy , but the effect of which you are unable to ...
... feel in a kind of dumb show , it is insipid ; if you have to explain it , it is making a toil of a pleasure . You ... feeling in the air , a tone in the color of a cloud which hits your fancy , but the effect of which you are unable to ...
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... we have formerly lived , and with which we have intimate associations , every one must have found that the feeling grows more vivid the nearer we ap- proach the spot , from the mere anticipation of the 16 William Hazlitt.
... we have formerly lived , and with which we have intimate associations , every one must have found that the feeling grows more vivid the nearer we ap- proach the spot , from the mere anticipation of the 16 William Hazlitt.
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Página 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 72 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Página 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Página 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 67 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...