Modern Eloquence, Volume 2J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... spirit . " Add to this that nearly one fourth of Thucydides ' history is made up of speeches imi- tated from the epic poets and that most of them were the work of the author . His history is a splendid piece of literature , but it is ...
... spirit . " Add to this that nearly one fourth of Thucydides ' history is made up of speeches imi- tated from the epic poets and that most of them were the work of the author . His history is a splendid piece of literature , but it is ...
Page 421
... spirit , whose beginning , whose ending , he never can find , -so entire , so boundless . Far too as her splendors shine , system on system shooting like rays , upward , downward , without center , without circumfer- ence , in the mass ...
... spirit , whose beginning , whose ending , he never can find , -so entire , so boundless . Far too as her splendors shine , system on system shooting like rays , upward , downward , without center , without circumfer- ence , in the mass ...
Page 422
... spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past , -in whatever form , whether of literature , of art , of institutions , that mind is inscribed . Books are the best type of the influence of the past , and perhaps we shall get at the truth ...
... spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past , -in whatever form , whether of literature , of art , of institutions , that mind is inscribed . Books are the best type of the influence of the past , and perhaps we shall get at the truth ...
Page 423
... spirit : henceforward it is settled the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and per- verted mind of the multitude , slow ...
... spirit : henceforward it is settled the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and per- verted mind of the multitude , slow ...
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... spirit . The mind now thinks , now acts , and each fit reproduces the other . When the artist has exhausted his materials , when the fancy no longer paints , when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness , he has 428 ...
... spirit . The mind now thinks , now acts , and each fit reproduces the other . When the artist has exhausted his materials , when the fancy no longer paints , when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness , he has 428 ...
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Page 774 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 727 - He's here in double trust ; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed : then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 774 - To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
Page 504 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 728 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 723 - I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
Page 760 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 727 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.
Page 583 - He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away, his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions are gone...
Page 732 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.