Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1875 - 440 pagina's |
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Pagina 35
... expression to her gratitude that to Bishop Colenso ' has been given the strength to grasp , and the courage to teach , truths of such deep import . ' In the same way , more than one popular writer has compared him to Luther . Now it is ...
... expression to her gratitude that to Bishop Colenso ' has been given the strength to grasp , and the courage to teach , truths of such deep import . ' In the same way , more than one popular writer has compared him to Luther . Now it is ...
Pagina 69
... expression is frequently used which is more common in theological than in literary language , but which seems to me fitted to be of general service ; the note of so and so , the note of catholicity , the note of antiquity , the note of ...
... expression is frequently used which is more common in theological than in literary language , but which seems to me fitted to be of general service ; the note of so and so , the note of catholicity , the note of antiquity , the note of ...
Pagina 72
... expressions like this : - ' Blindfold themselves , like bulls that shut their eyes when they push , they drive , by the point of their bayonets , their slaves , blindfolded , indeed , no worse than their lords , to take their fictions ...
... expressions like this : - ' Blindfold themselves , like bulls that shut their eyes when they push , they drive , by the point of their bayonets , their slaves , blindfolded , indeed , no worse than their lords , to take their fictions ...
Pagina 74
... expressing much , with expressing only trite ideas ; the problem is to express new and profound 1 A critic says this is paradoxical , and urges that many second- rate French academicians have uttered the most commonplace ideas possible ...
... expressing much , with expressing only trite ideas ; the problem is to express new and profound 1 A critic says this is paradoxical , and urges that many second- rate French academicians have uttered the most commonplace ideas possible ...
Pagina 89
... expressing blank defect of intelligence , a word for which we have no exact equivalent in English , — bête . It is the difference between a venial , momentary , good - tempered excess , in a man of the world , of an amiable and social ...
... expressing blank defect of intelligence , a word for which we have no exact equivalent in English , — bête . It is the difference between a venial , momentary , good - tempered excess , in a man of the world , of an amiable and social ...
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Academy admirable beautiful better Bible Bossuet brother caliph called Cayla character charm Châteaubriand Chênaie Christian Count Gobineau criticism death divine England English epoch Eugénie Eugénie de Guérin expression feeling France French French Revolution genius German give Goethe Goethe's Gorgo Greek Guérin happy heaven Heine human Hussein ideas imagination Imam intellectual intelligence Jansenists Jeremy Collier Joubert journal Kassem Kerbela Kufa La Chênaie Lamennais language literary literature live Lord Mahomet mankind Marcus Aurelius matters Maurice Maurice de Guérin Mdlle mind moral nation nature never one's pagan passed passion perfect perhaps Philistine philosophy poem poet poetry practical Praxinoe prophets prose Protestantism religion religious remarkable Saint Sainte-Beuve Scripture seems sense Shakspeare sister soul speak sphere Spinoza style suffering thee things thou thought tion Tractatus Theologico-Politicus true truth Voltaire whole words writes
Populaire passages
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...