Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Deep, deep under the foam lies my love in his narrow home...
...pleasure, for it is easy to see from his article that the author makes a wide distinction between duty and pleasure, and considers happiness the result of the latter alone, which is very wise, if we recognize something higher and more to be desired than happiness in this narrow sense, but not so wise when we find that what the author means is that "a person who in a materialistic age is willing to renounce all pleasures but those derived from the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue had better retire to the wilds of Mount...
...been already said be true, if the noblest part of man's nature makes him long for what can never be attained in this life, if the desire for this and struggle after this are more to be coveted than all temporal prosperity, must not that success, in the narrow sense that this author uses the word, be just the thing not to be desired, and a feeling of failure, notwithstanding the work of a lifetime, be the best proof of a faith worth having? To quote once more from the author of "Success" "There can be no more melancholy...
...marry,-receive their marriage certificate and matriculation papers at the same time (I hope to get them next week, shall be admitted as a student in full standing about a week after graduating),-in fact, the thing for me is a quiet life,-'love in a cottage,' and 'the narrow, narrow house...
...effort "to do honor to Shakspere, to make out the succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England as may be found in Germany, and gives as a reason the narrow way in which Englishmen have devoted themselves to the mere text, instead of striving for a comprehensive view, through his plays, of the man Shakspere himself, both in his youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which...