Word: youths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...marked contrast to Thierry's imagination is the sensibility of Michelet. This quality in Michelet's writing was the result of his unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
...Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie" were very successful; they were admired for their brightness and their gaiety, and because from one end to the other they were bursting with youth. In his "Spectacle dans un Fauteuil" we find him in the middle of his career; and here appears the sadness of his nature...
Victor Hugo was of plebian origin; hence the vigor of his physical constitution, the violence of his anger, his intellectual and moral health; hence also a certain lack of taste, of tact and of delicacy. During his youth he wandered abroad, in Italy and Spain, where he accumulated a stock of impressions. These impressions received in the course of his travels became fruitful in the dreams of his later years...
...organization a chance. Do not find fault with it. If we get beaten the first year, give the organization a chance the second, if we get beaten the second, give it a chance the third. If we persevere we will win. It is with us, middle-aged men whose youth lies in the remote past, it is upon us that the responsibility rests...
...then gave a description of Dr. Johnson's personal appearance and customs; and an account of his early youth, together with a picture of London and the state of affairs in England when Johnson went to the capitol, and sought the patronage of Lord Chesterfield. He ended the lecture by reading passages from Johnson's letters and other works...