The Writings of John Burroughs: Literary values and other papersHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1904 |
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... individual force , we soon tire of it . ) The savor of every true literary production comes from the man himself . Hence , without attempting a formal definition of literature , one may say that the literary quality seems to arise from ...
... individual force , we soon tire of it . ) The savor of every true literary production comes from the man himself . Hence , without attempting a formal definition of literature , one may say that the literary quality seems to arise from ...
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... individual they become when a mind of another type marshals them into sentences . What vigor and life in them ! they seem to have been newly coined since we last met them . It is the test of a writer's real worth does the language ...
... individual they become when a mind of another type marshals them into sentences . What vigor and life in them ! they seem to have been newly coined since we last met them . It is the test of a writer's real worth does the language ...
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... individual , inevitable , — the more it pleased him . Art , and not nature , was his aspiration . And this view has more currency in Europe than in this coun- try . In some extreme cases it becomes what one may fairly call the art ...
... individual , inevitable , — the more it pleased him . Art , and not nature , was his aspiration . And this view has more currency in Europe than in this coun- try . In some extreme cases it becomes what one may fairly call the art ...
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... ; but the perpetuity of the " me and the " you " is not implied . All that is implied is the perpetuity of the sum of physical forces . But 99 as to the future of the individual , standing upon 39 ANALOGY · TRUE AND FALSE ―
... ; but the perpetuity of the " me and the " you " is not implied . All that is implied is the perpetuity of the sum of physical forces . But 99 as to the future of the individual , standing upon 39 ANALOGY · TRUE AND FALSE ―
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John Burroughs. as to the future of the individual , standing upon the past or upon the present , what are we safe in affirm- ing ? Only this — that as we had a beginning we shall have an ending ; that as yesterday we were not , so to ...
John Burroughs. as to the future of the individual , standing upon the past or upon the present , what are we safe in affirm- ing ? Only this — that as we had a beginning we shall have an ending ; that as yesterday we were not , so to ...
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Page 10 - But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.
Page 76 - I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is.
Page 77 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 185 - Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums, That beat to battle where he stands; Thy face across his fancy comes, And gives the battle to his hands : A moment, while the trumpets blow, He sees his brood about thy knee ; The next, like fire he meets the foe, And strikes him dead for thine and thee. So Lilia sang: we thought her halfpossess'd, She struck such warbling fury thro...
Page 194 - I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.
Page 182 - The poet, the orator, bred in the woods, whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes, year after year, without design and without heed, — shall not lose their lesson altogether, in the roar of cities or the broil of politics.
Page 180 - It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense : It is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art: It is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument : And, of all human productions, the orations of DEMOSTHENES present to us the models which, approach the nearest to perfection.
Page 183 - At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave, the pines murmur, the river rolls and shines, and the cattle low upon the mountains, as he saw and heard them in his infancy. And with these forms, the spells of persuasion, the keys of power are put into his hands.
Page 199 - Spercheusque et virginibus bacchata Lacaenis Taygeta! o qui me gelidis convallibus Haemi sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra!
Page 225 - I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.