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...productions of the Germans also, or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, which it will not have in the literatures where it not native. A rough-and-ready critic easily credits the Germans with the Celtic fineness of tact, the Celtic nearness to Nature and her secret; but do the strokes in the German's picture of nature ever have the indefinable delicacy of charm, and perfection of the Celt's touch...
...were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here on this bench and school of Time," and defend it as a better reading in a note. Another German critic of great pretensions, pronounces "the Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell," and "The Yorkshire Tragedy" to be Shakespeare's on the strength of structure and diction. Quoting from the last named play, he declares "the description of remorse...
...past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than as example. In literature, the ability to make such contrasts is of incalculable advantage, nay, of prime necessity in acquiring breadth of view, and in defining our impressions more sharply. Without it, no man can be a critic. It was this which, in the absence of any original contemporary literature, gave to the classics that preponderance which degenerated into superstition. But the same result may be reached by the study of any literature that affords us the means of contrast and comparison with our own. Thus it was their...
...literature began in earnest, and this movement found its most perfect expression in art. This was chiefly owing to the Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time was done for, and at the command of, the church...
...reflecting their calm and abiding opinions by its editorials. We are here not only to afford a running comment on university events, but we are ready and eager to give aid to all movements which promise increase for Harvard's welfare. We purpose to be, not so much the critic, as the servant of the University...