Lectures to Young Men, On Various Important Subjects
Lectures to Young Men, On Various Important Subjects
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Shakespeare left the dramatical literature immeasurably purer than it came to him.
Bulwer has made the English novel- literature more vile than he found it. The one was a reformer, the other an implacable corrupter. We respect and admire the one, (while we mark his faults,) because he with- stood his age ; and we despise with utter loathing the other, whose specific gravity of wickedness sunk him below the level of his own age. With a moderate caution, Shake- speare may be safely put into the h...ands of the young. I regard the admission of Bul- wer as a crime against the first principles of virtue.
In all the cases which I have considered, you will remark a greater indulgence to that Digitized by Google 1 84 LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN impurity which breaks out on the surface, than to that which lurks in the blood and destroys the constitution. It is the curse of our literature that it is traversed by so many rills of impurity. It is a vast champaign, waving with unexampled luxuriance of flower, and vine, and fruit ; but the poisonous flower everywhere mingles with the pure ; and the deadly cluster lays its cheek on the wholesome grape ; nay, in the same cluster grow both the harmless and the hurtful berry ; so that the hand can hardly be stretched out to gather flower or fruit with- out coming back poisoned.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Shakespeare left the dramatical literature immeasurably purer than it came to him.
Bulwer has made the English novel- literature more vile than he found it. The one was a reformer, the other an implacable corrupter. We respect and admire the one, (while we mark his faults,) because he with- stood his age ; and we despise with utter loathing the other, whose specific gravity of wickedness sunk him below the level of his own age. With a moderate caution, Shake- speare may be safely put into the h...ands of the young. I regard the admission of Bul- wer as a crime against the first principles of virtue.
In all the cases which I have considered, you will remark a greater indulgence to that Digitized by Google 1 84 LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN impurity which breaks out on the surface, than to that which lurks in the blood and destroys the constitution. It is the curse of our literature that it is traversed by so many rills of impurity. It is a vast champaign, waving with unexampled luxuriance of flower, and vine, and fruit ; but the poisonous flower everywhere mingles with the pure ; and the deadly cluster lays its cheek on the wholesome grape ; nay, in the same cluster grow both the harmless and the hurtful berry ; so that the hand can hardly be stretched out to gather flower or fruit with- out coming back poisoned.
What to read after Lectures to Young Men, On Various Important Subjects?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Beecher Henry Ward to read onlineMoreLess
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