...n this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue li... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ... battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. W e college poets trot, you 240 Henry Esmond know, on very easy nags; it hath been, ti... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ... ...n- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats in such lang...

...celebrated for his daring vault ing act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prai ries; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an... ...The Hours did not go through any of those rosy performances, which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any fa...

...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...s been told far and wide, and will forever be a legend of these mountains. Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances which led some to supp...

...hall lose it of myself, I fancy. Some drivelling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base. It’s a feature of th... ...he wise men of the earth—rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets—and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would no... ...d he. ‘I shouldn’t have said it, if I had known. I should have praised it. Poets are all so irritable,’ he said. In short, he laughed at him under cov... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...

...perienced it,” she replied. “That is why,” he said, “I especially love the poets. I think verse more tender than prose, and that it moves far more eas... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

...with those who had lived and thought and felt before him— philosophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important were human institut... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ll that can subdue itself to wait, and lay no petty traps for opportunity. Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to i...