 | 1870 - Страниц: 510
...Doctorwiirde. Von ALFONS KISSNER. Bonn. 1867.. 8vo. pp. 81. WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer ? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 692
...smiles. Mr. Lowell asks at the beginning of the article, "Will it do to say anything more about Chaucer ? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ?" He himself, we think, says many things on this topic, as well as on that of Shakespeare — in regard... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - Страниц: 450
...was all his life struggling to break loose. CHAUCER.* WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer 1 Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - Страниц: 454
...was all his life struggling to break loose. CHAUCER.* WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer I Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn 1 It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine... | |
 | E. Galbraith - 1885 - Страниц: 160
...is to follow. We are then placed in a position of grave attention by an explanatory repetition,— " Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh on a topic so well worn ? " The passage which follows infuses us at once with the very spirit of Chaucer's muse: " It may well... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - Страниц: 408
...life struggling to break loose. CHA UCER* WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer ? Can anyone hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air — a medicine... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - Страниц: 410
...is something bodeful and uncanny in it CHAUCER 1 1870 WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? It may well be doubted; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - Страниц: 386
...is something bodeful and uncanny in it. CHAUCER1 1870 WILL it do to say anything more about Chaucer? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well worn ? It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine... | |
 | 1895 - Страниц: 900
...dissipate it. A statesman may be the savior of a nation ; but how long do nations live ? Knowledge has no country, belongs to no class, but is the might...Bruyere begins his Caracteres with " Tout est dit, et 1'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent " ; and two... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - Страниц: 634
...Mr. Lowell asks, at the beginning of his essay, ' Will it do to say 'anything more about Chaucer ? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but even fresh, on a topic so well-worn ? ' It is no less fair a problem to enquire whether there can ever be any end to the illustration... | |
| |
It may well be doubted ; and yet one is always the better for a walk in the morning air, — a medicine which may be taken over and over again without any sense of sameness, or any failure of its invigorating quality. 
