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...successors, to share with us in the emotions which the undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...
...down this summer, and when this old dormitory is gone there will be only about fifty rooms on the campus that will be within the reach of the man of ordinary means. It is even held by many prominent Yale men that the university had better refuse such a gift as Vanderbilt's if the acceptance is to result in this...
IV.Style.The primary question with books and shoes alike is-How do they wear? And, as literature is an art, the first question we should ask is-not what a man's natural gift may have been-but, What use has he made of it? Even in imaginative literature. imagination is not enough by itself; that it may become in any sense art, it must be united with style, which is the instinct of form...
...conditions of permanence? Immediate or contemporaneous recognition is certainly not dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...
...Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never be; but as in Catholic countries men go for a time into retreat from the importunate dissonances of life to collect their better selves again by communion with things that are heavenly, and therefore eternal, so this...