Word: norness
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Nor is it in poetry alone that these long and short syllables and this continued utterance have their significance. The cadence of common speech, which was not very different from that of the verses in the play, was entirely different from any which we have in English. Very much of...
Any German with penetration and tact in matters of literary criticism will own that the principle deficiency of German poetry is in style; that for style, in the highest sense, it shows but little feeling. Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what...
gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first of the great Venetian painters. He has been called an idealist, a realist, a dreamer and a scientist. A scientist he certainly was, and it is to be greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and...
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Neither athletics nor scholarship are wholly good or wholly bad. They are good when they occupy just that amount of attention needed for rounded development, and bad when they occupy either more or less.