... appeals not to the man of then or now, but to the entire round of human nature itself. Men are ephemeral or evanescent, but whatever page the authentic soul of man has touched with her immortalizing finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and... JAMES RUSSELL LOWEEL AN ADDRESS - Página 40por GEORGE WIILLIAM CURTIS - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1892 - 880 páginas
...statelier word on the subject of the relinquishment of the required study of Greek than that " oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian Muse only to forget her errand." On the other hand, in the address delivered in 1884 before the English Wordsworth Society, he sounds... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 776 páginas
...finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian muse only to forget her purpose." Then, too, his description of what a diploma should stand for was exceedingly happy. " Let... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 720 páginas
...finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian muse only to forget her purpose." Then, too, his description of what a diploma should stand for was exceedingly happy. " Let... | |
| Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 410 páginas
...finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian Muse only to forget her errand. Plato and Aristotle are not names, but things. On a chart that should represent the firm earth and... | |
| Elisha Benjamin Andrews - 1887 - 478 páginas
...it enshrines is rammed with life as perhaps no other writing, except Shakespeare's. . . . Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian Muse only to forget her errand.' — Lowell. § 4 PHILOSOPHY Zeller, as at § x. Ueberweg, Hist, of Philos., I. Schuize, Philos. der... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 380 páginas
...finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray father's. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian muse only to forget her purpose. Even for the mastering of our own tongue there is no expedient so fruitful as translation... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1888 - 276 páginas
...finger, no matter' how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian muse only to forget her errand. Plato and Aristotle are not names, but things. On a chart that should represent the firm earth and... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 248 páginas
...is often profoundly poetic — that is, quick with imagination, but always in the form of prose, not of poetry. It is so finely compact of illustration,...page sparkles and sways like a phosphorescent sea." " The style of Mr. Lowell is emphatically his own, and yet no man reports so habitually — half sympathetically,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 páginas
...finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian Muse only to forget her errand. Plato and Aristotle are not names but things. On a chart that should represent the firm earth and wavering... | |
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