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...have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...
...said, he said well. But the peculiar value of his writings for young men is his intense earnestness, his sincerity. He may well be called the apostle of sincerity. With Carlyle was carried to the grave the patriarch of a new age, - an age of activity, not of morbid self-consciousness; of sincerity, not of ceremony. He renounced the faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature to justify faith. The result was that Carlyle...
...more prized than those conferred by the college. It would be no longer true that the most successful men in after life are not those who have been most successful during their college career. To discourage a spirit of ungenerous rivalry and to curb the impatience of a morbid ambition, is the noblest work of the higher education. This work Harvard not only does not advance, but even retards...
...will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung to so high a pitch of excitement that if a reaction took place...
...with his defeat! In the foreground you vill hobserve the Duky Vellinkton a valkin' amid the cannon-balls, him not carin' one straw for the smell of powder or the flying bullets, a wavin' of his 'at and a laffin' at the French soldiers, vich makes them pecooliarly morbid, - a big word, meaning sick at the stomach! SCENE NO. 5: The Gorilla, 'Ippopotamus, and Dodo, bein' the most wonderful specimens of beast, bird, and fish in the vorld. The gorilla resides in the tropics and eats flesh, and is particularly fond of dissentin' missionaries, vich he relishes vith avidity...