Volume VIII – Letters and Social Aims
Prefaces
Preface to the Centenary Edition A year ago Mr. James Elliot Cabot died, a good citizen of the R...
I. Poetry and Imagination
But over all his crowning grace,Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,Is the purging of his eyeT...
II. Social Aims
When the old world is sterileAnd the ages are effete,He will from wrecks and sedimentThe fairer...
III. Eloquence
He, when the rising storm of party roared,Brought his great forehead to the council board,There...
IV. Resources
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;Where h...
V. The Comic
“The glory, jest and riddle of the world.”POPE. “And if I laugh at any mortal thing’T is t...
VI. Quotation and Originality
Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marke...
VII. Progress of Culture
Address Read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, July 18, 1867. Nature spokeTo eac...
VIII. Persian Poetry
To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna in 1856, we owe our best knowledge of the Persi...
IX. Inspiration
It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be ...
X. Greatness
There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much mor...
XI. Immortality
Wilt thou not ope thy heart to knowWhat rainbows teach, and sunsets show?Verdict which accumula...