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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...my to read in Landport, and he was too poor to buy books, but the stock of poets in the library was extensive, and Hill’s attack was magnificently sus... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...n why the same prize, the same triumph, the same bays are awarded to great poets and to great generals. Wenceslas, by nature a dreamer, had expended s... ...riumphs in the annals of sculpture may be counted, as we may count the few poets among men. Michael Angelo, Michel Columb, Jean Goujon, Phidias, Praxi... ...aw of life, for art is idealized creation. Hence great artists and perfect poets wait neither for commission nor for purchasers. They are constantly c... ...akes the poet! A man ought to find every woman in his wife, as the squalid poets of the seventeenth century made their Manons figure as Iris and Chloe... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...erved— the phenomenon of the Chichikovs of this world becoming temporarily poets. At all events, for a moment or two our Chichikov felt that he was a ... ... else a reading aloud of a brilliant page of one of those inspired Russian poets with whom God has dowered us, while the breast of each member of the ...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ...

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... air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vev... ...eed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the character- istics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, ... ... analogies or the dif- ferences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the “Trois Cour... ...oned. It was a beautiful summer morning, and in whatever fashion the young American looked at things, they must have seemed to him charming. He had co... ... lady who lived there—a foreign lady—a person older than himself. Very few Americans— indeed, I think none—had ever seen this lady, about whom there w... ...ed that if nocturnal meditations in the Colos- seum are recommended by the poets, they are deprecated by the doctors. The historic atmosphere was ther...

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...n was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, ‘Sir, we are a nest of sin... ... afterwards enriched the life of his unhappy companion, and those of other Poets. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that one night in particular, when Sava... ...bean; Mr. Shiels, who we shall hereafter see partly wrote the Lives of the Poets to which the name of Cibber is affixed; Mr. Stewart, son of Mr. Georg... ...ss; and it has been thought that some choice sentences in the Lives of the Poets were sup- plied by him. Peyton, when reduced to penury, had frequent ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage...

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...hless man is but a general villain or funny monster, a subject rejected of poets, taking no hue in the flat chronicle of history: but a faithless woma... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...e smoked this identical pipe. She acknowledged the merits of my whisky, as poets do hearing fine verses, never clapping hands, but with the expressive... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ntil he was caught by the masterly playing of a sonata by the chief of the poets of sound. He was caught by it, but he took the close of the introduc-... ... when she traced them! and it’s a moot point: as it is whether some of our poets have meaning and are not composers of zebra. ‘No one knows but them a... ...o Art. Why should we not learn to excel in Art? We excelled in Poetry. Our Poets were cited: not that there was a notion that poems would pay as an ex...

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...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ... good and bright piece of work, and recognised a link of sympathy with the poets who ‘play in hostelries at euchre.’ – Believe me, dear sir, yours tru... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...ally, I regret to say, empty. Could your recommendation introduce me to an American publisher? My next book I should really try to get hold of here, a... ...ta in the West. I see I am in a grasping, dismal humour, and should, as we Americans put it, quit writing. In truth, I am so haunted by anxieties that...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ...airest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their... .... By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read ... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...nsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual co... ...ly healthy, wealthy, and wise? This foreign bird’s note is celebrated by the poets of all countries along with the notes of their native songsters. Al... ...der to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winte... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...letters. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the oth...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...rds might not a Poe claim! Edgar’s father, a son of General David Poe, the American revolutionary patriot and friend of Lafayette, had married Mrs. Ho... ...m $20 monthly for two pages of criticism. Those were discouraging times in American literature, but Poe never lost faith. He was finally to triumph wh... ...Poe in Five V olumes the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. TO HELEN Helen, t... ...he sun! Well and strenuously sung! The populace are hailing him ‘Prince of Poets,’ as well as ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Mos... ...-footed patriots seems to be for eating up the cameleopard. ‘The Prince of Poets,’ therefore, is upon his hinder legs, running for his life. His court... ...thou art Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus the Illustrious! — also ‘Prince of Poets,’ ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Most Remarkabl...

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...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...l Journal” of Leipsic—a periodical of high authority and merit, which some American bookseller would do well to translate and republish, records in a ...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th... ...ebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, ...

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...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...- tween a London populace and that of the most frequented 35 V olume Five American city. A second turn brought us into a square, bril- liantly lighte... ... 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity. In t... ...ough and through with a Paixhan bomb, or knocked him in the head with the “Poets and Poetry of America,” he could hardly have been more discomfited th... ...iddon replied at great length, in phonetics; and but for the deficiency of American printing-offices in hieroglyphical type, it would afford me much p... ...pose will be to cite for consideration, some few of those minor English or American poems which best suit my own taste, or which, upon my own fancy, h... ...blest—and, speaking of Fancy—one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His “Fair Ines” had always for me an inexpressible ... ... cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets, not because the impressions he produces are at all times the most pr... ...ed that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing ...

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...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...y poetry. Meantime, unblushing, unseen, and often unheard, the guile- less poets have gone on singing in a sweet strain. How they dare do the impossib... ...in wrote The Loves of the Plants and a scoffer The Loves of the Triangles, poets have been sup- posed to be indecorously blind to the progress of scie... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ... ...he cried under his breath. “The first German light! Hurrah!” And those two American citizens shook hands on it with the greatest fervour, while I turn... ... at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our uneasy heads. We cannot be sufficientl...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ...fields of light, as that between verse and prose. The circumstance that the poets then, and the more charming ones, have in a number of instances, with... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...to his new arrangement had yet had from him—was that he was practising his American in order to converse properly, on equal terms as it were, with Mr.... ...o, it’s his way. It belongs to him.” But she had wondered still. “It’s the American way. That’s all.” “Exactly—it’s all. It’s all I say! It fits him—so...

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...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ...ssible for these two classes to unite or to put forward any demands… . The American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World repres... ...n of its utility would be invaluable. Whoever will observe how many of our poets have been men of private means will realize how much poetic capacity ... ...political rule. This is the essential significance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine a...

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... TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY O CLOUD PALE eyelids, dream dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overt... ...ECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TO A POET, WHO WOULD HA VE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE YOU say, as I have often given tongue In p... ... 1914 98 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS RESPONSIBILITIES THE GREY ROCK Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here... ...assed against the world. THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great mel... ...nous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and for poets after us, Thoughts long knitted into a single thought, A dance like g... ... for theme Traditional sanctity and loveliness; Whatever’s written in what poets name The book of the people; whatever most can bless The mind of man ...

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...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,... ...still less as outweighing so much evidence of an opposite character.”— North American Review, No. 89, October, 1835. IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Edi...

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...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...

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... matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexa- tion, hindranc... ...ve expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works,... ...e; O how unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among the T...

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...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...