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Saturday, September 26, 2026

Reminescences Of The Former Paradise

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Anonymous (A Lover of Flowers),  The Lover’s Language of Flowers; Expressive of the Sentiments of the Heart  (London: W. Nicholson & Son...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Human Hearts Can Never Stay

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Winthrop H. Root, in his Introduction to: Poems and Letters of Nikolaus Lenau (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1964), 39-41: Lena...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Women Being Relatively Uncivilized

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H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1922), II., 12. Honor, 51-2: Perhaps one of the chief...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

Bitterness On The Lips

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Paolo Mantegazza, The Book of Love (New York: American-Neo-latin Library, 1917), ch. XVII, The Hell of Love, 191-92: Neither the most patie...

The Gods Taught Us Silence

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Plutarch, ‘‘Of Garrulity, or Talkativeness,’’ tr. John Philips (in Plutarch’s Essays And Miscellanies , Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 19...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Giving Life To Things

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe. Truth and Poetry: From my Own Life , tr. John Oxenford, bks. I-XX (London: George B...
Monday, September 14, 2026

Faithful And Silent Priests Of The Vanished God

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Paolo Mantegazza, The Book of Love  (New York: American-Neo-latin Library, 1917), ch. XVII, The Hell of Love, 186-189: Pain, so rich in affl...

The World Of Manly Business

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Josiah Royce, ‘‘Tennyson and Pessimism,’’ in  Studies of Good and Evil: A Series of Essays upon Problems of Philosophy and of Life (New Yor...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Suffering From The Unrealised Ideal

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Jean-Marie Guyau, A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation or Sanction , tr. Gertrude Kapteyn (London, 1898), 190-1: Although the elem...

Alone In The Company Of Many

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Ramon Llull,   The Book of the Lover and the Beloved , tr. E. Allison Peers (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923), §§228...

Arise!

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John Milton, Paradise Lost , 1.330: Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

A Piece Of The Sun’s Gold

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Maria von Wedemeyer to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pätzig, 23 August, 1943 (in Love Letters from Cell 92 , tr. John Brownjohn (Nashville: Abingdon ...
Sunday, September 6, 2026

The Pretense Of Vice; Sentimentalism & The Passionate; The Aristocratic vs. The Populace; Romanticised Biography; History & Literature; & Heroic Sincerity

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Johan Huizinga, ‘‘The Task of Cultural History (1926 [1929]),’’ in The Course of Civilizations , tr. James S. Holmes & Hans van Marie (P...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

The Country Of My Choice

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Journal Intime , tr. Mrs Humphry Ward, May 2, 1877: Which nation is best worth belonging to? There is not one in w...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Life Of The Thinker

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel,   The Journal Intime , entry of September 9, 1880: All personal events, all particular experiences, are to me texts fo...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Monstre Incompréhensible

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Journal Intime , entry of December 26, 1868: If men are always more or less deceived on the subject of women, it i...

Death Is Over Our Heads

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Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy , vol. III (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896), pt. III, sect. I, mem. I, subs. I, 43: Why do we...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Art Added To Scholarship

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George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse & Other Essays  (London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 [1913]), 162-3: . . . hi...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Most Solid Goodness Of Heart

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Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius , tr. William G. Hutchison (London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904), 239-40: The most solid g...

Disintegrating Effect Of German Education

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Emery Neff, The Poetry of History: The Contribution of Literature and Literary Scholarship To the Writing of History since Voltaire (New Yo...