Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1875 - 440 pagina's |
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Pagina x
... style of Professor , because this is a title I share with so many distinguished men , — Professor Pepper , Professor Anderson , Professor Frickel , and others , who adorn it , I feel , much more than I do . However , it is not merely ...
... style of Professor , because this is a title I share with so many distinguished men , — Professor Pepper , Professor Anderson , Professor Frickel , and others , who adorn it , I feel , much more than I do . However , it is not merely ...
Pagina 49
... style , if ever man was , he had the insight to perceive what a potent instrument of the grand style was here to his hand . It was the beginning of a great century for France , the seventeenth ; men's minds were working , the French ...
... style , if ever man was , he had the insight to perceive what a potent instrument of the grand style was here to his hand . It was the beginning of a great century for France , the seventeenth ; men's minds were working , the French ...
Pagina 51
... style in language , —its close relations , so often pointed out , with character , —are most important . Richelieu , a man of high culture , and , at the same time , of great character , felt them pro- foundly ; and that he should have ...
... style in language , —its close relations , so often pointed out , with character , —are most important . Richelieu , a man of high culture , and , at the same time , of great character , felt them pro- foundly ; and that he should have ...
Pagina 71
... style perfectly sound and sure , if he is left too much to himself , with no ' sovereign organ of opinion , ' in these matters near him . Even men like Jeremy Taylor and Burke suffer here . Take this pas- sage from Taylor's funeral ...
... style perfectly sound and sure , if he is left too much to himself , with no ' sovereign organ of opinion , ' in these matters near him . Even men like Jeremy Taylor and Burke suffer here . Take this pas- sage from Taylor's funeral ...
Pagina 72
... style in his head , help feeling the note of provinciality there , the want of simplicity , the want of measure , the want of just the qualities that make prose classical ? If he does not feel what I mean , let him place beside the ...
... style in his head , help feeling the note of provinciality there , the want of simplicity , the want of measure , the want of just the qualities that make prose classical ? If he does not feel what I mean , let him place beside 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...