The Writings of John Burroughs: Literary values and other papersHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1904 |
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... pleasure . - One is surprised to read the remark of the " Sat- urday Review " on the published letters of Whit- man , — letters that have no extrinsic literary value whatever , not one word of style , — namely , that few books are so ...
... pleasure . - One is surprised to read the remark of the " Sat- urday Review " on the published letters of Whit- man , — letters that have no extrinsic literary value whatever , not one word of style , — namely , that few books are so ...
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... pleasure who had little confidence in him as an his- torian , but one could hardly read Freeman and dis- count him in the same way ; one might have great delight in Ruskin , who repudiated much of his teaching . I suppose one comes to ...
... pleasure who had little confidence in him as an his- torian , but one could hardly read Freeman and dis- count him in the same way ; one might have great delight in Ruskin , who repudiated much of his teaching . I suppose one comes to ...
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... pleasure , again , is more evenly distributed . In Poe the plot and the style interest us . In Dickens it is the character and the action . The novelist has many strings to his bow , and he can get along very well without style , but ...
... pleasure , again , is more evenly distributed . In Poe the plot and the style interest us . In Dickens it is the character and the action . The novelist has many strings to his bow , and he can get along very well without style , but ...
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... pleasure pre- dominates , on the whole , over that of pain . Practi- cally , " the writer goes on to say , " every word of this description should be kept in our minds , so that we may consciously apply it as a test to any piece of ...
... pleasure pre- dominates , on the whole , over that of pain . Practi- cally , " the writer goes on to say , " every word of this description should be kept in our minds , so that we may consciously apply it as a test to any piece of ...
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... pleasure and the stimulus it affords us , apart from any other consideration . It exhibits such a play of mind and ... pleasure and profit in the sub- ject - matter from our pleasure and profit in the per- sonality of the writer . We do ...
... pleasure and the stimulus it affords us , apart from any other consideration . It exhibits such a play of mind and ... pleasure and profit in the sub- ject - matter from our pleasure and profit in the per- sonality of the writer . We do ...
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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.