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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...
Particular illustrations of the tendencies of the Romantic School are found in Friedrich Schlegel. He was a romantic genius, wayward, but not deep. Novalis' was a tender and noble nature, yet fickle and without a truly ideal object. Schelling was also way ward in method and worked back from Fichte and Spinoza. His chaotic idealism won the condemnation of Fichte himself. Schelling was largely influenced by the idol of the Romantic School, Carolina, whose correspondence with him is of great assistance in our study of the time...
...resolutions in support of Lord Salisbury's ministry, and the undergraduate politicians are exercising their oratorical powers in mimic Parliamentary contests. One man, who signs himself "Conservative," writes in the Review a vigorous appeal to all holders of sound political opinions to try to influence by direct arguments the wayward followers of the Liberal ministry. He urges the "extreme importance of doing everything in their power to further the good cause...
...only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker" in the pursuit of the wayward tennis ball should have suffered so sudden a cooling, and his numbers so sadly diminished, is not easy to see. We are perhaps forced to the conclusion that a reckless extravagance had characterized the players of tennis previous to the new rule, and that prices paid to "shackers" had ruled much...
...side, while the straight rackets are for those who are not good at judging the position of the ball, and besides there are all the old styles. We will, in fact, have no complaint to make in regard to rackets for the coming year. Our sole grievance is the wayward ways of the wicked little "mucker...