The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... Philosophy . By Warner Fite . ( S. Klyce ) ...... 239 248 228 On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs . By Dorothy Scarborough ( Vernon Loggins ) 119 112 230 115 Party Battles of the Jackson Period , The . By Claude G. Bowers ( Sedley L. Ware ) ...
... Philosophy . By Warner Fite . ( S. Klyce ) ...... 239 248 228 On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs . By Dorothy Scarborough ( Vernon Loggins ) 119 112 230 115 Party Battles of the Jackson Period , The . By Claude G. Bowers ( Sedley L. Ware ) ...
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... philosophy of life , a perception of the baffling , mysterious , double - faced appearances of human existence , where hope and right seem to be perversely thwarted either by accident or by mocking illusion in the very constitu- tion of ...
... philosophy of life , a perception of the baffling , mysterious , double - faced appearances of human existence , where hope and right seem to be perversely thwarted either by accident or by mocking illusion in the very constitu- tion of ...
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... philosopher becoming acquainted with his own mind . He peruses Zarathustra with delight , but it leaves him " breathless and shaken " , and he goes on well to remark : " But the parasites of humanity - and there are far too many of them ...
... philosopher becoming acquainted with his own mind . He peruses Zarathustra with delight , but it leaves him " breathless and shaken " , and he goes on well to remark : " But the parasites of humanity - and there are far too many of them ...
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... philosopher , he had no tolerance of tricks . The fantastic stupidity of people who spent their useless time in talking in closets to spirits of those whom they were bored to converse with when alive , he spurns " like a stranger's cur ...
... philosopher , he had no tolerance of tricks . The fantastic stupidity of people who spent their useless time in talking in closets to spirits of those whom they were bored to converse with when alive , he spurns " like a stranger's cur ...
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... philosophy , and one can think it not far from right to presume that , had he lived , he might well have become a greater Disraeli , managing the fates of nations , and perchance the world , with that same uncanny genius for solid sense ...
... philosophy , and one can think it not far from right to presume that , had he lived , he might well have become a greater Disraeli , managing the fates of nations , and perchance the world , with that same uncanny genius for solid sense ...
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Page 343 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 456 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 26 - They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...
Page 186 - With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be held in reverence ; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Page 458 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what " Blackwood" or the "Quarterly" could possibly inflict : and also when I feel I am right, no external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.
Page 456 - The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth.
Page 132 - Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them selfdeceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly...
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Page 431 - What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that — like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the hills and forests of Judaea — rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the...
Page 181 - What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns.