Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions cannever be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, soas to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. 9SBut that sort of reason which banishes the affections is inca-pable of filling their place. These public affections, combinedwith manners, are required sometimes as supplements, some-times as
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions cannever be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, soas to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. 9SBut that sort of reason which banishes the affections is inca-pable of filling their place. These public affections, combinedwith manners, are required sometimes as supplements, some-times as correctives, always as aids, to law. The precept givenby a wise man, as well as a great critic, for the construction of 109poems is equally true as to states : Non satis est pulchra essepoemata, dulcia sunto. There ought to be a system of mannersin every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed corelish. To make us love our country, our country ought to belovely. -OS 91. visto = vista. 93. mechanic = merely wise man ... sunto: that is,Horace. The passage is from the Ars Poetica, and means, Itis not enough that poems bebeautiful, they must also besweet. XV. WILLIAM COWPER. CHARACTERIZATION BY CAMPBELL. I. The nature of Cowpers works makes us peculiarly identifythe poet and the man in perusing them. As an individual, hewas retired and weaned from the vanities of the world; and asan original writer, he left the ambitious and luxuriant subjects iiSiMA CAMPBELLS CHARACTERIZATION OF COWPER. 249 of fiction and passion for those of real life and simple nature, andfor the development of his own earnest feelings in behalf of moraland religious truth. 2. His language has such a masculine, idiomatic strength, andhis manner, whether he rises into grace or falls into negligence,has so much plain and familiar freedom, that we read no poetrywith a deeper conviction of its sentiments having come from theauthors heart; and of the enthusiasm, in whatever
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