misanthropy

• They have a slight misanthropy, a shade deeper than belongs to me; and as it seems nowadays I am a philosopher and am grown to have opinions, I think they must have an apologetic date, though I well know that poetry that needs a date is no poetry, and so you will wiselier suppress them. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• This might, on the lips of a cynic, serve for a formula of that kind of misanthropy which is not more unamiable than it is unscientific. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• Misanthropy, when it has its source in passion,--when it is fierce, bitter, fiery, and scornful,--when it vigorously echoes the aggressive discontent of the world, and furiously tramples on the institutions and the men luckily rather than rightfully in the ascendant,--this is always popular; but a misanthropy which springs from insight,--a misanthropy which is lounging, languid, sad, and depressing,--a misanthropy which remorselessly looks through cursing misanthropes and chirping men of the world with the same sure, detecting glance of reason,--a misanthropy which has no fanaticism, and which casts the same ominous doubt on subjectively morbid as on subjectively moral action,--a misanthropy which has no respect for impulses, but has a terrible perception of spiritual laws,--this is a misanthropy which can expect no wide recognition; and it would be vain to deny that traces of this kind of misanthropy are to be found in Hawthorne's earlier, and are not altogether absent from his later works. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
• Misanthropy, when it has its source in passion, -- when it is fierce, bitter, fiery, and scornful, -- when it vigorously echoes the aggressive discontent of the world, and furiously tramples on the institutions and the men luckily rather than rightfully in the ascendant, -- this is always popular; but a misanthropy which springs from insight, -- a misanthropy which is lounging, languid, sad, and depressing, -- a misanthropy which remorselessly looks through cursing misanthropes and chirping men of the world with the same sure, detecting glance of reason, -- a misanthropy which has no fanaticism, and which casts the same ominous doubt on subjectively morbid as on subjectively moral action, -- a misanthropy which has no respect for impulses, but has a terrible perception of spiritual laws, -- this is a misanthropy which can expect no wide recognition; and it would be vain to deny that traces of this kind of misanthropy are to be found in Hawthorne's earlier, and are not altogether absent from his later works. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
• to say Know'st thou the mount, where clouds obscure the day Where scarce the mule can trace his misty way Where lurks the dragon and her scaly brood And broken rocks oppose the headlong flood 2) EPIGRAM ('The Sun', February 8, 1814 On the Detection of Lord BYRON'S Plagiarism, in 'The Sun' of Friday last That BYRON borrows verses is well known But his misanthropy is all his own 3) LORD BYRON ('The Sun', February 11, 1814 We are informed from very good authority, that as soon as the House of Lords meets again, a Peer of very independent principles and character intends to give notice of a motion, occasioned by the late spontaneous avowal of a copy of verses by Lord BYRON, addressed to the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, in which he has taken the most unwarrantable liberties with her august Father's character and conduct; this motion being of a personal nature, it will be necessary to give the Noble Satirist some days notice, that he may prepare himself for his defence against a charge of so aggravated a nature, which may perhaps not be a fit subject for a criminal prosecution, as the laws of the country not forseeing the probability of such a case ever occurring, under all the present circumstances, have not made a provision against it; but we know that each House of Parliament has a controul over its own members, and that there are instances on the Journals of Parliament where an individual Peer has been suspended from all the privileges of the high situation to which his birth entitled him, when by any flagrant offence against good order and government, he has rendered himself unworthy of exercising so important a trust Morning Post 4) PARODY ('The Sun', February 16, 1814 WEEP, DAUGHTER OF A ROYAL LINE MOURN, dabbler in dull party rhyme Thy mind's disease, thy name's disgrace. —  The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2

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