The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 1908-1909, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thayer, William Roscoe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0265127939 ISBN 13: 9780265127933

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 1908-1909, Vol. 17

There is in us all an eager and commendable curiosity to learn the incidents in the lives of notable personages, whereby we may be enabled to reanimate them and see them in their habits as they lived. In certain circumstances, may not this curiosity be pushed too far, and lead us to inquire too closely into everyday life Is that zeal commendable that prompts the publication of letters that were never meant to be shown abroad, much less printed, where the petty foibles of the daily round, and the trivial weaknesses, and worse, of domestic life, are laid bare to those who please to listen Is it fair Is it gentlemanly Does even length of time sanction such disclosures Who can read the Paston Letters without the conscious blushes of in genuous shame at playing the ignominious part of an eavesdropper or at peeping through a keyhole (in a stage Aside let me answer that I can. But thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor [1] do in the state of villainy It has always been my terror lost the facts of Shakespeare's life should be derived from this keyhole scrutiny, and that the revelations might make us hang our heads. What mortal life, filled, as all our lives are, with low-thoughted care, can ever come up to our picture of the majestic bearing of the myriad-minded creator of these plays!10 On Shakespeare.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0265127939
• ISBN 13: 9780265127933
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 852
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