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...tself, does it the worst of services, and may well inspire in the lover of literature certain lively questions as to the future of that institution. T... ... have we met him, when it comes to that, in the walks of interesting prose literature, and why assume that we have to believe in him before we are abs...

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...is century be my contemporary; perchance shall read some scattered leaves of literature, and sometimes talk with me. Why read history, then, if the ag... ...l continue to inspire, the strains of poets, such as compose the mass of any literature. Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rus ...

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.... Had she from birth enjoyed a more favorable environment, she would have made literature or music. Instead, she was El Soo, daughter of Klakee Nah, a... ...ed Laborer” — a book that was hailed everywhere as an able contribution to the literature of progress, and as a splendid reply to the literature of di...

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...is Custom House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages ca... ...ce with men of altogether different qualities, and lever murmur at the change. Literature, its exertions and objects, were now of little moment in my ... ...scriptions, the result, I honestly believe, would have been some thing new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a... ...a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the ... ...e table. It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature. The profound depth of the minister’s repose was the more re...

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...TUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVER SITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 TO A PO... ... STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE WHERE, where but here have pride and Truth, That long to give th...

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... life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not ... ...n the cellar. What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about the... ...ritten in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, ... ...itten were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct ... ...e written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to dis... ...man’s speech. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, f... ...w ex ceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college bred and... ...and distiller of celestial dews. Who knows in how many unremembered nations’ literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs presided... ...the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not t...

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...ous reason, and thinking of the book only. “I have little leisure for such literature just now. I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lat... ... this conception. Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies’ school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete ... ... of her embroidery. A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. “Yes,” said Mr. Brooke, “this... ...arriage, these being sub jects on which he felt himself amply informed by literature, and that traditional wisdom which is handed down in the genial ... ...orant of. You would hardly believe how little I have taken in of music and literature, which you know so much of. I wonder what your vocation will tur... ...cious, and Mr. Ned was satisfied that he had the very best thing in art and literature as a medium for “paying addresses”—the very thing to please a ni... ... said young Plym dale, a little cheered by this advantage. “Oh, I read no literature now,” said Lydgate, shutting the book, and pushing it away. “I r... ...d more like a ghost in his ghostly blue green world; the volumes of polite literature in the bookcase looked morn like immovable imitations of books. ... ... the privileges of a sublime rage which is an apology for every thing (in literature and the drama). Happily Rosamond did not think of commit ting a...

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...e students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all th... ...ds in Europe. The Schulze Delitsch movement. . . .And then all this enormous literature of the labor question, the most liberal Lassalle movement. . .... ...ellectual work that came in his way. But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the ... ... he’s ready. And that’s not all—twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the age... ... this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discuss... ...ors, and she did a great deal of reading, both of novels and of what serious literature was in fashion. She ordered all the books that were praised in... ...e portrait. What you said so perfectly hits off French art now, painting and literature too, indeed— Zola, Daudet. But perhaps it is always so, that m... ...on, watching for the first impression his book would make in the world and in literature. But a week passed, a second, a third, and in society no impre...

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... deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that ...