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...China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness of his home dwell beneath its folds across...
Swifter than lightning Dante transcends the earth, and travels from planet to planet towards the highest beatitude. The first heaven is the planet of the Moon, where dwell the souls of those whose wills though set upon virtue, were unstable in character. From the Moon Beatrice lifts Dante with a look to the second heaven of Mercury, where rest the souls of those who have pursued honor and glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus...
...methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine. Yet we should not dwell too much upon the mistakes of a man so full of generous enthusiasm for the best things. Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater and Henry James were all apostles to the Philistines...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...
...Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my breast its several torments dwell...