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...dictum is final. No more will the Portfolio call up the wonted raptures, but still it comes monthly to insult my grief. I give it up. Hereafter I shall consign myself to the "odors of Araby" which haunt Boylston Hall, and the mercies of the Higher Mathematics...
...America are very different persons, for practical morals are never questioned here, nor have we different codes for different classes of society. But in essentials they are the same. The accident which changes a bourgeois into an artiste does not give him the social training, or, as the French call it, the savoir vivre, requisite of a gentleman, much less his delicacy of feeling. Wordsworth certainly was superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author's presence, with...
...have had several complaints which it seems our duty to notice, and find no fault but with the system itself. We refer to telling men under examination of their "suspension," "conditions," and the like. Because a man is a poor scholar, unfortunate, or stupid, or call it what you please, it does not follow that he has no feeling whatever, and could hear of his dismissal or leave of absence during a trying ordeal, and work as well afterward. It is not fair to say that the man brings this on himself, and unless he had neglected his studies, disregarded...
Loud through the keyhole utters his call...
SCENE, the Montpensier Collection. - Brown. Why do they call that picture a Madonna? - Smith. Because so many criticisms are made on her, you know...