Jasmin, Barber, Poet, PhilanthropistHarper & Brothers, 1891 - Broj stranica: 299 |
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Stranica 81 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Stranica 81 - If my writings are to last, it will, I myself believe, be mainly owing to this characteristic. They will please for the single cause, ' That we have all of us one human heart.
Stranica 144 - ... language of a rural people — a language talked among fields, and trees, and by rivers and mountains — a language never minced or disfigured by academies and dictionary-makers, and journalists; you must have a language like that which your own Burns, whom I read of in Chateaubriand, used; or like the brave, old, mellow tongue — unchanged for centuries — stuffed with the strangest, quaintest, richest, raciest idioms and odd solemn words, full of shifting meanings and associations, at once...
Stranica 144 - ... strangest, quaintest, richest, raciest idioms and odd solemn words, full of shifting meanings and associations, at once pathetic and familiar, homely and graceful — the language which I write in, and which has never yet been defiled by calculating men of science or jack-a-dandy litterateurs.' "The above sentences may be taken as a specimen of the ideas with which Jasmin seemed to be actually overflowing from every pore in his body — so rapid, vehement, and loud was his enunciation of them....
Stranica 122 - Every one can make his own destiny— every one employ his life nobly. This is what I have done, and would do again if I had to recommence my career ; I would choose that which has brought me where I am. Blind, and suffering without hope, and almost without intermission, I may give this testimony, which from me will not appear suspicious.
Stranica 141 - Auch, the ladies present actually tore the flowers and feathers out of their bonnets, wove them into extempore garlands, and flung them in showers upon the panting minstrel ; while the editors of the local papers next morning assured him, in floods of flattering epigrams, that humble as he was now, future ages would acknowledge the
Stranica 144 - The language had been licked, and kneaded, and tricked out, and plumed, and dandified, and scented, and minced, and ruled square, and chipped — (I am trying to give an idea of the strange flood of epithets he used) — and pranked out, and polished, and muscadined, until, for all honest purposes of true high poetry, it was mere unavailable and contemptible jargon.
Stranica 140 - that I have portrayed a part of the noble sentiments which men and women may experience here below. I believe that I have emancipated myself more than anyone has ever done from every school, and I have placed myself in more direct communication with nature. My poetry comes from my heart. I have taken my pictures from around me in the most humble conditions of men; and I have done for my native language all that I could.
Stranica 122 - Whatever may be the fate of my labors, this example, I hope, will not be lost. I would wish it to serve to combat the species of moral weakness which is the disease of our present generation ; to bring back into the straight road of life some of those enervated souls that complain of wanting faith-, that know not what to do, and seek everywhere, without finding it, an object of worship and admiration. Why say, with so much bitterness, that in the world, constituted as it is, there is no air for all...
Stranica 138 - Such is Jasmin — lively in imagination, warm in temperament, humorous, playful, easily made happy, easily softened, enthusiastically fond of his province, of its heroes, of its scenery, of its language, and of its manners. He is every inch a Gascon, except that he has none of that consequential self-importance, or of the love of boasting and exaggeration, which, falsely or not, is said to characterise his countrymen.