III.
STUDIES.
“Nur durch das Morgenthor des Schönen
Drangst du in der Erkenntniss Land;
An höhen Glanz sich zu gewohnen
Uebt sich am Reize der Verstand.
Was bei dem Saitenklang der Musen
Mit süssem Beben dich durchdrang,
Erzog die Kraft in deinem Busen,
Die sich dereinst zum Weltgeist schwang.”
Schiller.
“To work, with heart resigned and spirit strong;
Subdue, with patient toil, life’s bitter wrong,
Tough Nature’s dullest, as her brightest ways,
We will march onward, singing to thy praise.”
E.S., in the Dial.
“The peculiar nature of the scholar’s occupation consists in this, — that science, and especially that side of it from which he conceives of the whole, shall continually burst forth before him in new and fairer forms, Let this fresh spiritual youth never grow old within him; let no form become fixed and rigid; let each sunrise bring him new joy and love in hie vocation, and larger views of its significance.”
Of Margaret's studies while at Cambridge, I knew
personally only of the German. She already, when I
first became acquainted with her, had become familiar
with the masterpieces of French, Italian and Spanish
literature. But all this amount of reading had not made
her “deep-learned in books and shallow in herself;”
