Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...choicest possession to me, which, to the utilitarian, is but dust and ashes. No; these are things which I cannot give up. They depend upon feelings which lie too deep for logic. They carry with them a certainty which neither logic, facts, nor figures have ever brought to the mind of man. Is it, then, strange or wrong that they should be so loved...
...constant love for Astarte; finally, after several unsuccessful efforts to end his life, he dies, while the angels contend with him for his soul. It is true "Manfred" abounds in many fine parts, and is justly ranked among his best productions. Yet imitation is not Byron's specialty; his mind was so constituted that when he set himself to dramatize the ideas of others he did not excel. The "Deformed Transformed" and "Werner" seem to me to exemplify this. The plot is, that Werner, a man of high principle, but weak-minded, under the pressure of circumstances, reaches a high...
...Cain," with which he was so often stigmatized. They both abound in fine verses, both show deep thought. "Cain," I believe, develops some peculiar ideas on religion, some very fair reasoning, and curious statements, which, amongst all the grand imagery and marked characters, are apt to somewhat disturb the mind of a cursory reader. The object of these remarks is to suggest that Mr. Taine, in doing Byron's "Manfred" full justice, might have given some of his other dramas a more prominent place, which they certainly deserve...
...been desired to remove one of the restraints we labor under without any possibility of evil result being incurred, we presume to suppose that voluntary prayers would have been the alteration made. Though Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected that prayer is the highest act of which the human mind is capable, and that we ought not to be deprived, or allowed to deprive ourselves, of prayer in the morning, we would like to submit that it is not we who pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member of the Faculty, while the most...
Unpitying ravage on her mind...