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Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Certainty Of Being Alone

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Hippolyte Taine, A Tour Through the Pyrenees , tr. J. Safford Fiske (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1875), 149-51: This valley is solitar...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Life's Endless Toil

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done (composed in 1844, and pub. in 1845 as an intro. to a compiled volume of lyrics Longfellow himse...
Friday, September 13, 2024

No Letter

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The   Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister , pt. I., 1st letter to Sylvia:                          I have...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Weariness

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Weariness :   Mine  eyes are weary of surveying The fairest things, too soon decaying; Mine ears are weary of re...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

The Dark Of Night

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Anna Wertz, “The Genesis of Hans Blumenberg’s Legitimacy of the Modern Age ” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, Spring...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

That The Modern World Is Both Christian And Un-Christian

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Karl Löwith, Meaning In History: Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Tocqueville On The Indians, The Americans, & The Virtues & Vices Of The Latter

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Alexis de Tocqueville, “A Fortnight in the Wilderness, 1831,” in  Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville , the translator unn...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Haeckel, Darwin, And The Idiot-Physiognomy

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Wilhelm Bölsche, Haeckel: His Life and Work , tr. Joseph McCabe (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 146-7: Darwin was never a handsome man fro...
Monday, June 24, 2024

‘‘Progress,’’ Hopelessness, France, And Flaubert

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Karl Löwith, Meaning In History: Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press,...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

The Dark Ages?

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Auguste Comte, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte , tr. Harriet Martineau (London: George Bell and Sons, 1896), vol. III., 123: We sha...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Full Of Divinity

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The System of Economic Contradictions; or, The Philosophy of Poverty , tr. Benjamin R. Tucker (1888), vol. I., Intro...
Monday, May 27, 2024

God's Closet: Solitude

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William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867), 146-148: T...
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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Realms Of Peace And Love

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From Georg Friedrich Händel's Jephtha , verses (libretto) by Rev. Thomas Morell:           In gentle murmurs will I mourn,           as ...
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Friday, May 24, 2024

Conversation With The Dead

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Letter from Alexander Pope to Mr. Gay, October 1, 1730:   I AM something like the sun at this season, withdrawing from the world, but meanin...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Desolating Loss

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Herman Hooker, Uses of Adversity, and the Provisions of Consolation (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1850), 105-7, 109-10: We had a fr...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Without You

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A sonnet, Nature , by Luís de Camões (1524-1580), translated by William Baer ( Selected Sonnets , University of Chicago Press, 2005, 40-41):...
Friday, April 5, 2024

The Dilettante VS. The Artist Of Real Genius

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Friedrich Schiller,  Æsthetical and Philosophical Essays , ed. Nathan Haskell Dole (Boston: F. A. Niccolls & Company, 1902), 251-253: I ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

First Affections

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William Wordsworth,  Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood :            [...]  High instincts before which o...
Monday, February 12, 2024

So Stainless And So Calm

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George W. Bethune (1805-1862), Hymn to Night :                          YES! bear them to their rest;                     The rosy babe, tir...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Melancholy Bird

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Charlotte Smith, Sonnet III.,  To A Nightingale:                Poor melancholy bird—that all night long                Tell’st to the Moon ...