...John Bowen Hamilton Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 RESTORATION OF “THE HAPPY WARRIOR” By JOHN BOWENHAMILTON Evidence has long been available, but hitherto overlooked, which may help restore an important poem by Wordsworth from...

...Albert B. Smith Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 GAUTIER’S MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS By ALBERTB. SMITH Attempts to achieve...

... way in happiness” (ll. 524–25). Far from standing alone, Armytage’s statement flows immediately from his repeated identification of a kind of “meditation” (l. 524). Contrary to Wordsworth’s later disclaimers, he learned much about this activity of meditative mind from Kant’s theories of the sublime...

... Portlandia , which premiered in 2011, avoids the future-oriented “inevitability effect” of the fin de siècle utopias by returning to an earlier moment in the utopian genre: the satirizing of a society somewhere on Earth. Portlandia presents a lightly fictionalized version of Portland, Oregon, as a happy...

...” epitomes of the fin de siècle in fact circulated freely across the Channel, reaching more than the happy few. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Joris-Karl Huysmans Pierre Louÿs decadence translation In our era of rhizomatic antiperiodization...

... deconstructs the melodramatic convention of a happy ending and the concomitant restoration of innocence. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 transatlantic slavery indiano Catalan nationalism melodrama memory Shameful Specters: Remembering...

... of examining a number of themes and coijrdinating them, in the fashion of Paul Hazard and Ernst Cassirer. He has chosen instead to view and to organize the entire century around what he takes to be its central, overwhelming preoccupation, both in thought and in life- the quest for happiness...

..., and happiness consists in their fulfillment. At the second level of human characteristics stand three general prin- ciples: self-love, benevolence, and submission to the will of God. Their function is so to organize and systematize the particular pas- sions that man may live in conformity...

..., eti. M. Mack, rev., enlarged ed. (Hamden. Conn., 1968). pp. 34,3-G . Foi. ;in exliartstiir siii.vcy of thcsc inatei.ials. see llareii-Sofie R@st\rig. The Happy Man: Studies in the iZ1etaniorl)tioses ($0 Classical Ideal, 1600-1760, re ed., 2 vols. (Oslo, 1962. 19.58). 'l'hc 'Iickenh...

... omitted to do well. God grant you his Holy Spirit, and receive you to everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. Lord Jesus receive your spirit. Amen. I am, dear, dear mother, Your dutiful son. . . .4 * h3. G. Irwin, “Dr. Johnson’s Troubled h’lind,” LQP, 13...

... to accept Rous- seau’s system itself, he admires its brilliance and is willing to concede the validity of two of its main premises : that the primitive state may have been a happy one and that the arts and sciences have always constituted a threat to human happiness. He maintains, nevertheless...

... consideration of the dramatic conception and style that served to reinforce the dramatists’ views. At the one extreme we find a group of plays that do little but point out the common human inclination to find happiness in daydreams. To express their dissatisfaction with daily routine and a drab...

... Town She went upon the painted shore And there she walks for ever more Happy quite Beaming bright In a happy happy light All alone. The double happy takes us back to another poem about watching art, “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Here is the third stanza: Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot...

... “the standard of St. George was hoisted upon the mountains of Rasselas,” Justin McCarthy went out of his way to declare: “The idea that Johnson actually had in his mind the very Abyssinia of geography and history, when he described his Happy Valley, was in itself trying...

...’ rest from perturbation and the strength I now enjoy” (p. 106). He then confides to Hayley that the immediate occasion of this happy liberation was his visit to the Truchsessian Gal- lery on the preceding day. What can we make of this association of experiences? Although Blake pinpoints...

... country? Since all of these evils came as a result of a single adversity-change of place-the philosophers evolved a con- solatory doctrine to suit this adversity, and hence all the evils which accompany it : “Man is a citizen of the world, and the wise man can be happy anywhere...

... is important to Wollaston’s scheme, for he makes human happiness consist in the amount of true pleasure, a counting-house procedure which was later ridiculed by Bolingbroke as weighing “happiness and misery even to grains and scruple In Franklin, the weighing process is not needed, for by setting...

..., or hers, because she walks too quickly for the injured foot, or both their pulses, because they can hardly wait to be reunited, is less important than the fact of excitement, happy in anticipation, but also anxious because there is no certainty yet that she will be saved...

.... (243-48) Like Boethius, he has been ravished of his happiness by an unexpected stroke of Fortune, a stroke which is baffling to him in its apparent senselessness. Before Boethius begins to talk with Philosophy, his re- sponse to his unhappy fate is to call for the peace of death...