However, it is important to note that both authors do not bash authorities; rather, they only criticize the blind acceptance of such authorities. ... After reading the riddle that was found on the foundations of the Abbey of Theleme, the monk interpreted it to be like a tennis game, noting that the "provoking people- get to serve twice, and "the cord hangs right across the court, and whoever speaks up and says it went under or over, everybody takes his word for it- (128). ... In fact, he criticizes those who believe that they have the absolute truth rather quickly, asserting that "only fools...

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Hugh despised less-civilized people and he criticized them quickly and harshly, he was uncaring to the broke and homeless and undervalued the indecent people of society. ... "I think of my shining future, the future my parents, my professor, everybody has painted for me " Hugh's bright unyielding future was made by the decisions of his parents, and as he was performing, he was thinking about the outback, the majesty of Uluru and "suddenly, with one note, DvoÅ™ák's Cello Concerto becomes Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender. " Hugh left the conservatorium with everyone aston...

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Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the ro...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate