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...With a shape so undefined...
...high-sounding words in inappropriate connections. It is a melancholy fact that this school, if we may call it such, has found its chief supporters at Harvard. In marked contrast to it, is the school of the wild, the metaphysical, the intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming grates, and draw deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which...
...modern schools of art-the French and German, for example-we find much of good, but fail to discover any lofty devotion to the cause; for the money-getting mania of the nineteenth century rules even men of genius, and much rubbish is cast upon the world in the shape of carelessly executed work. Still, we here find much of the highest excellence, and the better understanding of technicalities gives men of moderate ability many facilities for success. But art as an educator and an active power in the elevation and refinement of mankind no longer makes itself felt...
...Mexican cattle-thief, sir. Until his seventeenth year, he never saw a book, sir, nor a page, nor a line, sir. He was brought up in the deepest dirt, sir, and degradation, sir." Could Mr. Bounderby himself have said more? Here was a poet in a strange shape, indeed. His origin was none of the best, and, we were assured, up to the time of his introduction to his publisher, he invariably ate his beefsteak (raw) with a bowie-knife...
...performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months with pardonable pride. Still, many were not satisfied, and it was not long before the one thing needful took definite shape in the minds of all. What interest or even dignity could attach to a society whose members sat dangling their legs over wooden benches, and the location of whose president, even, suggested nothing more dignified than a proctor eager in the pursuit after "cribs" at a Freshman examination...