The Tocsin of Revolt: And Other EssaysCharles Scribner's Sons, 1922 - 295 páginas Commentary and criticism on American literature. |
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Página 85 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Página 109 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Página 62 - If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Página 292 - The minister made a grand and moving picture of the assembling together of the world's hosts at the millennium when the lion and the lamb should lie down together and a little child should lead them. But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with...
Página 111 - Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Página 102 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 199 - I know thee by that yellow face, That strong complexion of true Indian race, Which time can never change, nor soil impair, Nor Alpine snows, nor Turkey's morbid air ; For endless years, through every mild domain, Where grows the maize, there thou art sure to reign.
Página 85 - During the thirty or forty years of their independence, they have done absolutely nothing for the Sciences, for the Arts, for Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy.
Página 199 - E'en in thy native regions, how I blush To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush! On Hudson's banks, while men of Belgic spawn Insult and eat thee by the name Suppawn.
Página 32 - There is but a very small remnant,' he says,' of honest followers of wisdom, and they who are of these few, and who have tasted how sweet and blessed a possession is wisdom, and who can fully see, moreover, the madness of the multitude, and that there is no one, we may say, whose action in public matters is sound, and no ally for whosoever would help the just, what...