Word: turns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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V.Piers Ploughman.In Dante we have had an example of a great national poet, and as contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere...
...observable in the style of the passage from Milton,- a style which seems to have for its cause a certain pressure of emotion, and an ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme...
...noble aims, nothing less than such a course of instruction as shall develop all the powers and fulfil all the capacities of the soul. But remember that your highest duty to your University begins when your immediate connection with it ceases,- that every scholar is bound to become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material...
...draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm of abuse which greeted his masterpiece. It is to such works as this that future generations will turn to obtain a true picture of the commonplace American business...
...countries, he said, may be judged by their laws. If the laws of a nation are improving, it follows that the people are, as a whole, becoming more intelligent. As in everything else the minister must help here to turn public opinion into the right channels. A minister can not preach mere sentiment on matters of law, but to talk reasonably and to influence his congregation in the right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather...