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...that belief I gained from reading a treatise on The Metabolism of Ups and Downs which my tutor suggested as a variation from Eighteenth Century Latitudinarianism and Its Effect on the Battle of Manila, or do you take two lumps? No. I cannot like T. S. Eliot for many reasons among which are these...
...eighteenth century, the pleasant period of highwaymen and catch-polls and Bow Street runners that romances batten on, is the Paradise of those writers who deal in the inexplicably appealing figure of the complete rogue. Defoe was the first to greatly plead the case of the unregenerate; there have been many since who fall back not on manner or significance but on the devil-may-care, romantic interest that lies in a man without ordinary morals who succeeds in living by his wits...
...often seemed to me that I must be somewhat infected with a disease most prevalent among the German eighteenth century romantics, namely, longing for Italy. Italy and Italian art have always seemed to me realms of perfect beauty. At 11 o'clock in the Fogg Museum Professor Edgell in Fine Arts 1d will lecture on Umbrian and North Italian Painting, and the opportunity seems too good to miss...
...figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
...demure Radcliffe scholar gave to me as her opinion the other day that "the seventeenth century was such a dull century, coming between the sixteenth and the eighteenth." It had a few redeeming features however. One of them, Moliere, is to be Professor Wright's subject in French 9 this morning at 10 o'clock. The lecture, which will be in Harvard 1, will be introductory to the more detailed treatment that will come later in the course...