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heeltje's review
Read as part of an August 'readathon'
This essay did not resonate with me and is clearly not written for me, the pessimist... at least, I must be a pessimist for not believing in God and being but a simple underdeveloped European?
I will refrain from any an actual review and not be giving a star rating.
This essay did not resonate with me and is clearly not written for me, the pessimist... at least, I must be a pessimist for not believing in God and being but a simple underdeveloped European?
I will refrain from any an actual review and not be giving a star rating.
metta's review
3.0
Favorite lines:
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
"If Browning were less difficult to read, he would surely be the dominant poet in this century. I feel the ecstasy with which he exclaims, “Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth this autumn morning!”
And how he sets my brain going when he says, because there is imperfection, there must be perfection; completeness must come of incompleteness; failure is an evidence of triumph for the fulness of the days."
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
"If Browning were less difficult to read, he would surely be the dominant poet in this century. I feel the ecstasy with which he exclaims, “Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth this autumn morning!”
And how he sets my brain going when he says, because there is imperfection, there must be perfection; completeness must come of incompleteness; failure is an evidence of triumph for the fulness of the days."
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