Word: materiales
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We deprecate the spirit which manifests itself in a shrug of the shoulders and an expression of indifference as to the fate of the nine. It is not manly. No pluckier thing has been done in Harvard athletics for many a year than the creation of this year's nine...
If we suppose a race of men suddenly extemporized, would it be possible for them to have any poetry? In order to have that, we must allow time for the invention of music, then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the...
II.Poetry in Homely Lines.I have known people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in...
Will Wordsworth survive as Lucretius survives, through the splendor of certain sunbursts of imagination refusing for a passionate moment to be subdued by the unwilling material in which it is forced to work, while that material takes fire in the working as it can and will only in the hands...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this...