University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course, Volúmenes4-5The University, 1917 |
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... Montaigne valued few things less ; he expressed a vigorous contempt of pedantry and wrote ingeniously of the advantages of ignorance . To the erudite Scaliger the confidences of the garrulous Seigneur de Montaigne seemed , no doubt ...
... Montaigne valued few things less ; he expressed a vigorous contempt of pedantry and wrote ingeniously of the advantages of ignorance . To the erudite Scaliger the confidences of the garrulous Seigneur de Montaigne seemed , no doubt ...
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... Montaigne still lives , and has been a force in literature from his day to this . Moreover , the influence he has exerted and the vitality of his works have in no small measure been due to that very habit of mind which led to his ...
... Montaigne still lives , and has been a force in literature from his day to this . Moreover , the influence he has exerted and the vitality of his works have in no small measure been due to that very habit of mind which led to his ...
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... Montaigne too was a unique and mem- orable personality , and it is his chief distinction that he had the courage to be his own Boswell . There are but few of the forms of literature in which the author appears in undress . If not sock ...
... Montaigne too was a unique and mem- orable personality , and it is his chief distinction that he had the courage to be his own Boswell . There are but few of the forms of literature in which the author appears in undress . If not sock ...
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... Montaigne we are now obliged to distinguish from all other kinds of essays by some such epithet as " familiar " or ... Montaigne's success and of the success of the other familiar writers . They are the men of letters who , in their ...
... Montaigne we are now obliged to distinguish from all other kinds of essays by some such epithet as " familiar " or ... Montaigne's success and of the success of the other familiar writers . They are the men of letters who , in their ...
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... Montaigne becomes interesting to all readers because in it they find themselves . Moreover , though an " undisguised egotist , " Montaigne is interested in many things other than himself , in all men and things that contribute to his ...
... Montaigne becomes interesting to all readers because in it they find themselves . Moreover , though an " undisguised egotist , " Montaigne is interested in many things other than himself , in all men and things that contribute to his ...
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Página 86 - Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight. Such times have been not since the light that led The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.
Página 404 - Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : " for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Página 189 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Página 48 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 190 - Monterey, With fearless Lowe and dashing May, Maryland, my Maryland ! Dear Mother ! burst the tyrant's chain, Maryland! Virginia should not call in vain, Maryland ! She meets her sisters on the plain, — "Sic semper!
Página 86 - Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go? Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance , And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Página 204 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead: — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Under the one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray.
Página 476 - ... or" desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides; and I like well that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden. The green hath two pleasures: the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn...
Página 333 - To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here ; To gather facts from far and near, Upon the mind to hold them clear, And, knowing more may yet appear, Unto one's latest breath to fear The premature result to draw — Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here ? THE SHADOW'.
Página 252 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life...