Word: essays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perry will discuss Pope's "Essay on Man," at some length, in his lecture next Tuesday. All interested should attend...
...thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English literature after the renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay on Man." It was "an attempt to vindicate the ways of God to man," and with such a necessarily large design the work was often rambling and incoherent. But though the thought is heterogeneous, it is warm, brilliant and clear, with all the charm of Pope's wonderful gift of expression...
Among the noticeable articles in the February Century are a poem by Longfellow, a new essay by Emerson, and a paper by the late Dean Stanley. It also contains Mrs. Burnett's new play, "Esmeralda," soon to be produced at the New York Madison Square Theatre...
Sophomore Themes. - Theme III. due Jan. 12. Subjects: 1. "Gray's Elegy" turned into prose. 2. Description of the telephone. 3. The story of "Paul Revere." 4. Comparison of the views presented in Bacon's essay on "The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," with those in Sumner's oration on "The Grandeur of Nations...
...connection with the essay on Mr. Gladstone, the following from Mr. Emerson's "English Traits" is interesting. He is speaking of English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...