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Friday, March 31, 2023

Confidence, Lack Of Confidence, Pride, And Vanity

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Johann Georg Zimmermann, Essay on National Pride, to Which are added Memoirs of the Author's Life and Writings , tr. Samuel Hull Wilcock...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Nature, The Greeks' Spirit, Their Art, And What Sets Them Apart

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John Addington Symonds, Studies on the Greek Poets , vol. II. (New York: 1880), ch. XXIII., The Genius of Greek Art, pp. 370-372: Nature is ...

Nature And Man And The Soul

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature (1807) , tr. J. Elliot Cabot, ( The German Classics: Masterpi...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Hours Of Youth, Of beauty, And Of Magic

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Malwida von Meysenbug, Memories of an Idealist , tr. Monte B. Gardiner (1999; A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University)...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

The Saddest Fate

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Anonymous,  The Saddest Fate : To touch a broken lute, To strike a jangled string, To strive with tones forever mute The dear old tunes to s...

Lover Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck, Love Letters , Schönhausen, October 10, 1850 ( Masterpieces of German Literature , vol. x., pp. 70-71): It is still impos...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Between Age And Youth

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1892, tr. Mrs. Annis Lee Wister (Masterpieces of German Literature, vol. 13, p. 434): In youth we lea...

The Dogmatic And The One With Open Vistas

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments (Spring 1885-Spring 1886) , tr. Adrian Del Caro (Stanford University Press, 2020), §34[25], p. 6:...
Monday, March 20, 2023

To Live In Obscurity (Especially In An Age Of Spectacles)

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Abraham Cowley, Essays , Of Obscurity: Bene qui latuit, bene vixit , He has lived well, who has lain well hidden. Which, if it be a truth, t...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Lente Sed Attente

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George Wither, A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Modern ,  Illvstr . XIX., Bk. 1: Experience  proves, that Men who trust upon Their Nat...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

The Laughing And Weeping Animal

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William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers , Lecture I.: Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Poetic Life

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Giovanni della Casa, Giovanni della Casa's Poem Book , tr. John Van Sickle (1999), III., The Healthy Style of Poetic Life, pp. 45-47:   ...

Between Thought And Feeling, And Amiel And Clough

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Richard Holt Hutton, Chriticism on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers (MacMillan, 1894), vol. I., ch. XXI., Amiel and Clough, pp. 212-3: Thou...
Monday, March 13, 2023

The Geniuses Without Learning

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Joseph Addison, Essays and Tales (London Cassell, 1888), Genius, pp. 157-9: Among great geniuses those few draw the admiration of all the wo...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

The Wife's Lament

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Old English Poems , tr. Cosette Faust & Stith Thompson (1918), 1. Pagan Poetry, 2. Gnomic Group, The Wife's Lament , pp. 73-74: [......

A Realisation

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Otto von Bismarck, quoted in: Emil Ludwig, Bismarck; The Story of a Fighter  (Blue Ribbon Books, 1927, reprinted 1934), tr. Eden and Cedar P...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

The Feature Of Roman Corruption

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William Edward Lecky, History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne , vol. I. (New York: 3rd edt., 1897), ch. 2, The Pagan Empire,...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Lucid Love

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Émile Verhaeren, The Love Poems of  Émile Verhaeren , tr. F. S. Flint, 1916, xv.: I dedicate to your tears, to your smile, my gentlest thoug...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

A Characterisation Of Carlyle By The Tainean Hand

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine,  History of English Literature (Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1908), vol. 4, Modern Authors, ch. IV., Philosophy and Hi...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Abides With None

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Saʿdī Shīrāzī, The Gulistān; Or, Rose Garden , tr. Edward B. Eastwick (London: 1880, 2nd edt.), ch. 1, p. 24:           The world, my broth...