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... Cæsar with the things . of God . Some honest republicans , like Ludlow , were never able to comprehend the chilling contrast between the ideal aim and the material ―― fulfilment , and looked askance on the strenuous reign 10 NEW ENGLAND.
... Cæsar with the things . of God . Some honest republicans , like Ludlow , were never able to comprehend the chilling contrast between the ideal aim and the material ―― fulfilment , and looked askance on the strenuous reign 10 NEW ENGLAND.
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... ideal estates in England . If Hawthorne had but known of him ! And yet how perfectly did his genius divine that ideal element in our early New England life , conceiving what must have been without asking proof of what actually was ! An ...
... ideal estates in England . If Hawthorne had but known of him ! And yet how perfectly did his genius divine that ideal element in our early New England life , conceiving what must have been without asking proof of what actually was ! An ...
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... ideal and wonted them to the actual , was equally so . In 1664 , not much more than a genera- tion after the settlement , Williams prophesies : " When we that have been the eldest are rotting ( to - morrow or next day ) , a generation ...
... ideal and wonted them to the actual , was equally so . In 1664 , not much more than a genera- tion after the settlement , Williams prophesies : " When we that have been the eldest are rotting ( to - morrow or next day ) , a generation ...
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... ideal , is something more inspiring for us than the most glorious utterance of merely intel- lectual power . The figure of Goethe is grand , it is rightfully preeminent , it has something of the calm , and something of the coldness , of ...
... ideal , is something more inspiring for us than the most glorious utterance of merely intel- lectual power . The figure of Goethe is grand , it is rightfully preeminent , it has something of the calm , and something of the coldness , of ...
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... ideal higher than that of being a poet , namely , to be thoroughly a man . To Nicolai he writes in 1758 : " All ways of earning his bread are alike becoming to an honest man , whether to split wood or to sit at the helm of state . It ...
... ideal higher than that of being a poet , namely , to be thoroughly a man . To Nicolai he writes in 1758 : " All ways of earning his bread are alike becoming to an honest man , whether to split wood or to sit at the helm of state . It ...
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Page 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Page 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Page 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Page 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Page 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Page 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.