Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1875 - 440 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... French Revolution and its age should not have come a crop of works of genius equal to that which came out of the stir of the great productive time of Greece , or out of that of the Renascence with its power- ful episode the Reformation ...
... French Revolution and its age should not have come a crop of works of genius equal to that which came out of the stir of the great productive time of Greece , or out of that of the Renascence with its power- ful episode the Reformation ...
Pagina 11
... French Revolution took a political , practical character . The movement which went on in France under the old régime , from 1700 to 1789 , was far more really akin than that of the Revolution itself to the movement of the Renascence ...
... French Revolution took a political , practical character . The movement which went on in France under the old régime , from 1700 to 1789 , was far more really akin than that of the Revolution itself to the movement of the Renascence ...
Pagina 13
... French Revolution derives from the force , truth , and universality of the ideas which it took for its law , and from the passion with which it could inspire a multitude for these ideas , a unique and still living power ; it is , it ...
... French Revolution derives from the force , truth , and universality of the ideas which it took for its law , and from the passion with which it could inspire a multitude for these ideas , a unique and still living power ; it is , it ...
Pagina 14
... French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other ; but neither is to be suppressed . A member of the House of Commons said to me the other day : ' That a thing is an anomaly , I consider to be no objection to it what ...
... French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other ; but neither is to be suppressed . A member of the House of Commons said to me the other day : ' That a thing is an anomaly , I consider to be no objection to it what ...
Pagina 15
... French Revolution ; and its movement of ideas , by quitting the intellectual sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , indeed , a prodigious and memorable course , but produced no such intellectual fruit as the ...
... French Revolution ; and its movement of ideas , by quitting the intellectual sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , indeed , a prodigious and memorable course , but produced no such intellectual fruit as the ...
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Pagina 396 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Pagina 378 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Pagina 403 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Pagina 46 - Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working -to a common result...
Pagina 45 - ... a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas.
Pagina 6 - ... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them...
Pagina 424 - I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Pagina xiv - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 170 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Pagina 23 - Reinew, existing as an organ of the Tories, and for as much play of mind as may suit its being that ; we have the British Quarterly Review, existing as an organ of the political Dissenters, and for as much play of mind as may suit its being that...