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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth has or the Pagan gift of union with it that Shelley has. Nor in them shall we find the mystic imagination of Coleridge. And neither of them sees things in the picture-like sense that Keats does. Almost...
...country is now the lack of just this spirit of unselfish patriotism. Our government at Washington is chiefly made up of men who have no thought for the best interests of the country and who do not concern themselves with any duties of government further than they find these useful in advancing themselves and their friends politically, or in getting money. Even now there is encamped in one of the beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than to force Congress to pass laws for their own welfare...
...wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English pronunciation is essentially that. It is not strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have...
...give him a greater number of vowel-sounds and a greater variety of endings. Yet, if we take the beginning of the Romance of the Rose, which, being a translation from the French, would be as likely as anything he wrote to be colored by that language, we shall find that the proportion of French words in it, though much greater than in Piers Ploughman, is relatively very small. But if we take a piece of Chaucer's prose-from the Parson's Tale, for example,- we are astonished to find how modern...
...chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading was chiefly of the writers of the sixteenth century, has the most Latin style of any of our modern authors...