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...bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As for his style, it has often been said not to be original. For that matter what style is original? Lamb's literary manner is indeed compounded of many simples, but the composition is so individually done as to make the ultimate blending his own. And any page...
...Jeffrey's estimate of Wordsworth's Excursion correct...
...FENNESSY.FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB. - No rehearsal tonight. Howard, Giles, Whitfield, Wilder, Sawyer, Hastings, Carleton. Starkweather, Blanchard, Wordsworth, Newton, Arnold, Bennett, Stackpole, come to Matthews 8 at 4 sharp...
...change is the symptom of progress. We can define life only as a series of constant changes ending in death, the great change to something beyond. Wordsworth defines progress as a movement of the race toward an unattainable perfection. In progress there is always a tendency to reaction. Conversion is a reaction, a putting away of old associations. The progress in science, which seemed to question some religious beliefs, brought about a reaction in the belief in one absolutely true religion...
From Aldrich Mr. Copeland passed to William Watson, who was a master of criticism, and who drew his inspiration, or rather his form, for he had little inspiration, from the eighteenth century writers. His "Wordsworth's Grave" is a masterpiece of poetical criticism. Watson was not the most poetical of poets. He had poetical reflection, but little poetic infusion. He often tried to be witty, but has had little success as a humorist...