Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1875 - 440 pagina's |
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Pagina 84
... soul of all good criticism , is lost , and the note of provinci- ality shows itself . Thus in the famous Handbook , marks of a fine power of perception are everywhere discernible , but so , too , are marks of the want of sure balance ...
... soul of all good criticism , is lost , and the note of provinci- ality shows itself . Thus in the famous Handbook , marks of a fine power of perception are everywhere discernible , but so , too , are marks of the want of sure balance ...
Pagina 87
... soul ; all it exists for , is to get its ends , to make its points , to damage its adversaries , to be admired , to triumph . A style so bent on effect at the expense of soul , simplicity , and delicacy ; a style so little studious of ...
... soul ; all it exists for , is to get its ends , to make its points , to damage its adversaries , to be admired , to triumph . A style so bent on effect at the expense of soul , simplicity , and delicacy ; a style so little studious of ...
Pagina 102
... soul . On Christmas - day , 1832 , having been then three weeks at La Chênaie , he writes thus of it to a friend of his family , M. de Bayne : — ' La Chênaie is a sort of oasis in the midst of the steppes of Brittany . In front of the ...
... soul . On Christmas - day , 1832 , having been then three weeks at La Chênaie , he writes thus of it to a friend of his family , M. de Bayne : — ' La Chênaie is a sort of oasis in the midst of the steppes of Brittany . In front of the ...
Pagina 106
... is beautifully fine and true . ' Every poet , ' he writes to his sister , has his own art of poetry written on the ground of his own soul ; there is no other . Be constantly observing Nature in her smallest details 106 MAURICE DE GUERIN .
... is beautifully fine and true . ' Every poet , ' he writes to his sister , has his own art of poetry written on the ground of his own soul ; there is no other . Be constantly observing Nature in her smallest details 106 MAURICE DE GUERIN .
Pagina 107
... souls , and then , falling from hands heavy with the languor of satiety , drop for ever into the gulf of oblivion ... soul and refresh it when it is weary , ' - these he treats with such severity that he may in some sense be described ...
... souls , and then , falling from hands heavy with the languor of satiety , drop for ever into the gulf of oblivion ... soul and refresh it when it is weary , ' - these he treats with such severity that he may in some sense be described ...
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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
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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...