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Compare these with his more thoroughly original work, and though I yield a place to "Manfred," his imitations sink into insignificance. "Sardanapalus" can vie in many points with "Manfred." In the one a remorseful, despairing man speaks; in the other, an Eastern voluptuary. Though Byron excels in both, - and it may be objected that the comparison is not fair, - yet Sardanapalus, his own creation, allows him a latitude of development which Manfred does not. In "Manfred" there is no woman. "Sardanapalus," on the contrary, has one of the fairest types of Byronic poetry. Here his true spirit shows itself; that...
...one would be so venturesome as to maintain that it inspires students very much to go to recitations, and the present coercion to our duty is only considered an evil because it is compulsion, we think, and it but occasionally conflicts with the inclination of any except the most negligent scholars. Our position is not unlike that of the Frenchman who had never been out of Paris, but when forbidden by the king to leave it, he could not rest night or day from moving heaven and earth till this liberty was restored to him. Then, returning to his customary...
...from the nature of these papers. I do not wish even to argue that this is not perfectly right; but I should like to call attention to the fact that a certain class of articles are not as a general rule popular, although their character might at first lead one to expect otherwise. I refer to humorous productions...
...less extent. The writers of these articles, having greater experience than the contributors to college papers, are more capable of writing so as to please their readers; further, they have a greater field of operation, since they are not confined to productions which have their application in any one direction. Besides, newspaper contributors have a much less cultivated class of readers to address; as a general rule but few of the humorous writings of the daily papers are pleasing to the more cultivated classes of society. It is true such writing pleases the majority of people, but in college...
...attended by physical strife. The bloodiest pages in history record most fully the progress of truth. But whether war be regarded as a necessary element of advance or not, any measures to diminish its frequency, so as to cut off all but the inevitable, must be welcomed by every one. The gift is appreciated by us, not only as indicative of his ample generosity, but as showing his faith in mankind, and hopes for the ultimate happiness of the race...