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2 Manter Hall.COLUMBIA. - The management of the Columbia Theatre have contracted with Messrs. Canary and Lederer of the New York Casino for the original production of "The Passing Show," for a short engagement beginning January 21. "The Passing Show" ran successfully at the Casino, New York, several months. The management...
8. Is Lessing a critic or a poet?
I do not believe that truth in its best sense is to be found in any narrow or confined circle of study, but much rather in expatiation over many fields. And we should never forget that fine saying of Lessing's: "Not the truth which one has arrived at, or...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of...
Dante told the Florentines that it was possible to be a philosopher under any stars; Montaigne proved that it was so in his remote Gascon turret. It is curious that Montaigne's Essays is the only speculative book which Shakespeare can be proved to have read. Dante in one sense...