The Debt of Civilization to Literature: An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the University of Michigan, Thursday, June 28, 1883Board of regents, 1883 - 29 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
æsthetic Ameri American aorist benignant social force Boston Hymn Byron Carlyle cause of popular Chaucer Civilization TO LITERATURE Corn Law delight divine drama Ebenezer Elliott Edmund Spenser Emerson English literature essay Faerie Queen fiction gave gifted hearts help and impulse high beauty high ideals highest historian histories of literature holy human soul immor intellectual joys Italian Renaissance Italy John Milton justice letters light litera literary Literature opens literature that humanizes ment Milton ministry modern conveniences modern progress moral movement nation of readers never noble Ode noblest novel Oppressed orator philanthropy philosophy Plato poet poetic poetry Political idealism popular liberty pure question revolution scholar sentiment services of literature Shakespeare sneer society song spirit storehouse of help sung thing Thou tion to-day true undying UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN voice wheresoe'er ye William Cowper wrought Ye clouds
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 24 - 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?
Seite 23 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Seite 28 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor?
Seite 29 - ... shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags With Freedom's image and name. Up! and the dusky race That sat in darkness long,-- Be swift their feet as antelopes. And as behemoth strong. Come, East and West and North, By races, as snow-flakes, And carry my purpose forth, Which neither halts nor shakes. My will fulfilled shall be, For, in daylight or in dark, My thunderbolt has eyes to see His way home to the mark.
Seite 23 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Seite 29 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Seite 15 - The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline...
Seite 25 - Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a
Seite 20 - ... the first predecessors of the pamphlets of Milton and of Burke. Rough as they are, they express clearly enough the mingled passions which met in the revolt of the peasants ; their longing for a right rule, for plain and simple justice; their scorn of the immorality of the nobles and the infamy of the court ; their resentment at the perversion of the law to the cause of oppression.