Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...feelings, there existed what may well be called the "golden ages" of art. Thus we look back to the age of Pericles, at Athens, the Augustine age, at Rome, the Renaissance, in Italy, and the palmy days of art in the Netherlands, as the most pleasing epochs in the world's history. It was then that the love of the beautiful reigned supreme, uncontaminated by the more artificial tastes of later times, when genius commanded the respect and position which gold does now, and painters and sculptors held a rank second to none in the estimation of the people...
Brilliant indeed was the appearance of Joaquin Miller (a truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that...
...poet laureate should be patronized by a wandering American. Moreover, it was reported that he had left in the far West a much-abused wife, and that she, poor lady, was about to take the lecture-stand in order to gain an honest livelihood by proclaiming to the world the crimes and cruelties of her husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present, we can merely conjecture in what particular way the coming poet will set at defiance God, man, or nature. That he will...
...reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with such - as this, both his mother and the world would doubtless be better...
...same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that few of us feel desirous or able to spend the three or four millions required annually to support the spread-eagle style on such a scale before a gaping world. Do not, however, set down the trait as a characteristic of him alone, or even, as you may quite willingly do, attribute it also to A, and admit that you have observed it in B; but consider honestly your own case as well. Do you say you don't believe any such thing, that there...