Lectures on the Harvard ClassicsWilliam Allan Neilson Sixty introductory lectures, five each on history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel, and religion. |
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... seem bizarre , but it did not exclude intense interest on the part of the Renaissance man for the world about him , his town , his country , and remote as well as neighboring nations . Petrarch likes to speak of the marvels of India and ...
... seem bizarre , but it did not exclude intense interest on the part of the Renaissance man for the world about him , his town , his country , and remote as well as neighboring nations . Petrarch likes to speak of the marvels of India and ...
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... seem cautious , almost over- timorous , in a period when so many men were not only accomplished scholars , authors ... seems to have been nothing that they could not do if they wished . THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Every interest was turned to ...
... seem cautious , almost over- timorous , in a period when so many men were not only accomplished scholars , authors ... seems to have been nothing that they could not do if they wished . THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Every interest was turned to ...
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... seem not rightly to perceive it ; then I pray thee to take heart again , and say to them , O my beloved lastling : ' Give heed , at least , how beautiful I am . " They would give heed , and to such extremes did many Renaissance men go ...
... seem not rightly to perceive it ; then I pray thee to take heart again , and say to them , O my beloved lastling : ' Give heed , at least , how beautiful I am . " They would give heed , and to such extremes did many Renaissance men go ...
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... seem when one thinks the matter over , is that there should be no good history of it . The three outstanding books are those of Michelet , Carlyle , and Taine ; and all three are destined . to live long as masterpieces , intellectual ...
... seem when one thinks the matter over , is that there should be no good history of it . The three outstanding books are those of Michelet , Carlyle , and Taine ; and all three are destined . to live long as masterpieces , intellectual ...
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... seems a perfectly mild affair . It is only by bearing in mind the conditions of political despotism that then existed in France that one can realize the boldness of the book . In it Voltaire gives his impressions of England in his ...
... seems a perfectly mild affair . It is only by bearing in mind the conditions of political despotism that then existed in France that one can realize the boldness of the book . In it Voltaire gives his impressions of England in his ...
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Page 55 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 56 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 63 - BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art :— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 39 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Ohi what a Revolution! And what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall!
Page 304 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 56 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 57 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page 305 - Be no longer a Chaos, but a World, or even Worldkin. Produce ! Produce ! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name ! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee : out with it, then. Up, up ! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today ; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.
Page 299 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 39 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age...