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Good morning, midnight!
I’m coming home,
Day got tired of me -
How could I of him?

Sunshine was a sweet place,
I liked to stay -
But Morn didn’t want me - now -
So good night, Day!

CHAPTER FOURTH
Addison
Section I.—The Significance of the Writings of Addison and Swift
In this vast transformation of mind which occupies the whole eighteenth century, and gives England its political and moral standing, two eminent men appear in politics and morality, both accomplished writers—the most accomplished yet seen in England: both accredited mouthpieces of a party, masters in the art of persuasion and conv

They do not fear to repel; they crave effect. Force is their characteristic, and the characteristic of the greatest amongst them, the first mind of the age, Edmund Burke, of whom Dr. Johnson said: "Take up whatever topic you please, he (Burke) is ready to meet you."

With Addison, Steele, and Swift, taste and genius invade politics. Voltaire cannot say whether the meditated harangues once delivered in Athens and Rome excelled the unpremeditated speeches of Windham, Carteret, and their rivals. In short, discourse succeeds in overcoming the dryness of special questions and the coldness of compassed action, which had so long restricted it; it boldly and irregularly extends its force

LO I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; prayses hauing slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song

We are still learning how not to be Modernist, which is reason all the more to see what such an ambition could mean.

Life was short, and books so countlessly many.

Sadness is necessary sometimes - like an operation; you can't be well without it.

Из-за отцовского наследия я часто вызывал раздражение в обществе, ибо кому охота выслушивать чужие мнения, в особенности мнения юноши, которые при малом его опыте всегда кажутся неубедительными. Зато мать щедро наделила меня качествами, годными для развлечения людей. Ведь даже самая пустая сказка исполнена прелести для живого воображения, и наш ум с благодарностью воспринимает самое скудное ее содержание.

Без этой его феноменальной общительности, без этой постоянной охоты якшаться с любым человеком, без этого жгучего его интереса к биографиям, нравам, разговорам, профессиям сотен и тысяч людей он, конечно, никогда не создал бы той грандиозной энциклопедии русского быта восьмидесятых и девяностых годов, которая называется мелкими рассказами Чехова.

Fiction

Not good for Michaela to allow herself to despair. Especially not angry despair.

To sit unsmilingly in the midst of the laughter he himself had provoked gave him an extraordinary sense of power and superiority.

Thus a beauty issues from this harmony—the beauty in the poet's heart which his whole work strives to express;a noble and yet a cheerful beauty,made up of moral elevation and sensuous seductions,English in sentiment,Italian in externals,chivalric in subject,modern in its perfection,representing a unique and wonderful epoch,the appearance of paganism in a Christian race,and the worship of form by an imagination of the

Spenser is superior to his subject, comprehends it fully, frames it with a view to its end, in order to impress upon it the proper mark of his soul and his genius. Each story is modulated with respect to another, and all with respect to a certain effect which is being worked out.

The allegory assumes gigantic proportions. When the object is to show temperance struggling with temptations, Spenser deems it necessary to mass all the temptations together. He is treating of a general virtue; and as such a virtue is capable of every sort of resistance, he requires from it every sort of resistance alike; after the test of gold, that of pleasure.

He liked her well enough but he was careful to make her understand that he wasn't the marrying kind. She said she was a radical and believed in free love, but that didn't suit him much either.

He'd been on the train so long he'd forgotten what he intended to do when he reached his destination.

Welldressed people stood around talking in welldressed voices.

They were at the free organ recital in Carnegie Institute, a good place to meet because nobody who was anybody ever went there.

He must have made a mistake somewhere but he couldn't see where.

It was a sparkling October day and everybody agreed that October was the best month in the year and that the minister had read the funeral service very beautifully.

Then he told her about his home in France and how he hated the conventional bourgeois life there and how he'd come to America because it was the land of youth and the future and skyscrapers and the Twentieth Century Limited and how beautiful he thought Chicago was.

"This person on his trial by court-martial expressed with an oath the wish that he might 'never hear of the United States again.'

"The Court sentenced him to have his wish fulfilled.