ISBN: 9781151084903

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...whose soul at last seemed like a palace devastated by fire, like a rich harvest field, where the tornado had made wide its path of ruin! The saddest chapter in literature is the history of our ten-talent men. Lingering long upon the career of these sons of genius, we turn from their dark story with the reflection that often greatness seems to be a menace, prosperity a peril, and position a test and strain. The scholars of Venice tell us that the mistress of the sea had her vast treasures, not through a few great ships, but by a multitude of lesser vessels. And ours is a world where the richest cargoes of the soul sweep forward in fleets made up of those lesser craft named twotalent people. What great men cannot do, average men easily achieve. A few elect ones there are who seem like vast ships laden with treasures, upon whose decks stand the harpers with their harps, but at whose helms there are no pilots, and oft the galleon has gone down in sight of the harbor where the smaller craft have peacefully landed their treasures and received welcome and victory. In that fascinating study called The Makers of Modern English the first six chapters tell the story of six sons of genius and greatness. Strangely enough, the career of four of these richly dowered men was a tragedy, that of Keats an unfulfilled prophecy, while that of Scott alone was an unmarred triumph. Here is Burns, of whom Carlyle asks: Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a trade horse? His hoofs are of fire, his path is in the heavens, his task bringing light to all lands. Will he lumber over mud roads, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door?'' Yet such a tragedy was the life of Burns! He was the child of supreme genius. After a century his... Newell Dwight Hillis, Books, Fiction and Literature, Great Books As Life-teachers Studies Of Character Real And Ideal Books>Fiction and Literature General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<

ISBN: 9781151084903

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...whose soul at last seemed like a palace devastated by fire, like a rich harvest field, where the tornado had made wide its path of ruin! The saddest chapter in literature is the history of our ten-talent men. Lingering long upon the career of these sons of genius, we turn from their dark story with the reflection that often greatness seems to be a menace, prosperity a peril, and position a test and strain. The scholars of Venice tell us that the mistress of the sea had her vast treasures, not through a few great ships, but by a multitude of lesser vessels. And ours is a world where the richest cargoes of the soul sweep forward in fleets made up of those lesser craft named twotalent people. What great men cannot do, average men easily achieve. A few elect ones there are who seem like vast ships laden with treasures, upon whose decks stand the harpers with their harps, but at whose helms there are no pilots, and oft the galleon has gone down in sight of the harbor where the smaller craft have peacefully landed their treasures and received welcome and victory. In that fascinating study called The Makers of Modern English the first six chapters tell the story of six sons of genius and greatness. Strangely enough, the career of four of these richly dowered men was a tragedy, that of Keats an unfulfilled prophecy, while that of Scott alone was an unmarred triumph. Here is Burns, of whom Carlyle asks: Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a trade horse? His hoofs are of fire, his path is in the heavens, his task bringing light to all lands. Will he lumber over mud roads, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door?'' Yet such a tragedy was the life of Burns! He was the child of supreme genius. After a century his... Newell Dwight Hillis, Books, Fiction and Literature, Great Books As Life-teachers Studies Of Character Real And Ideal Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1151084905