Essays in Criticism, Nummer 13Macmillan, 1865 - 302 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... condemned by my own umpire ; " as " rebutted , " and " with an extinguisher put upon me " by Mr. Tennyson's remarkable pentameter , " When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon ? " ( till I read Mr. Wright I had no notion PREFACE . ix.
... condemned by my own umpire ; " as " rebutted , " and " with an extinguisher put upon me " by Mr. Tennyson's remarkable pentameter , " When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon ? " ( till I read Mr. Wright I had no notion PREFACE . ix.
Pagina 11
... ) established , and that ( in the words of senatorial wisdom already quoted ) " for a thing to be an anomaly we consider to be no objection to it whatever . " remarkable thing , when we consider how little of mind AT THE PRESENT TIME . II.
... ) established , and that ( in the words of senatorial wisdom already quoted ) " for a thing to be an anomaly we consider to be no objection to it whatever . " remarkable thing , when we consider how little of mind AT THE PRESENT TIME . II.
Pagina 12
Matthew Arnold. remarkable thing , when we consider how little of mind , or anything so worthy and quickening as mind , comes into the motives which alone , in general , impel great masses of men . In spite of the extravagant direction ...
Matthew Arnold. remarkable thing , when we consider how little of mind , or anything so worthy and quickening as mind , comes into the motives which alone , in general , impel great masses of men . In spite of the extravagant direction ...
Pagina 48
... remarkable words , and they are , I believe , in the main quite true . A French- man has , to a considerable degree , what one may call a conscience in intellectual matters ; he has an active belief that there is a right and a wrong in ...
... remarkable words , and they are , I believe , in the main quite true . A French- man has , to a considerable degree , what one may call a conscience in intellectual matters ; he has an active belief that there is a right and a wrong in ...
Pagina 49
... remarkable characteristics of the French people in modern times ; at any rate , they strikingly characterise them as compared with us ; I think every- body , or almost everybody , will feel that . I will not now ask what more the ...
... remarkable characteristics of the French people in modern times ; at any rate , they strikingly characterise them as compared with us ; I think every- body , or almost everybody , will feel that . I will not now ask what more the ...
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Academy admirable Antoninus Pius beautiful Bishop Colenso Bossuet brother Catholicism Cayla character charm Chênaie Christian Coleridge creative criticism England English epoch Eugénie de Guérin expression feeling France French French Revolution genius German give Goethe Goethe's Gorgo Greek happiness heaven Heine human ideas imagination intellectual intelligence Jansenists Jeremy Collier Joubert journal La Chênaie Lamennais language letters light literary literature live look Lord Lord Macaulay Marcus Aurelius matters Maurice Maurice de Guérin Mdlle means mind modern spirit moral nation nature never note of provinciality one's pagan Paris passed passion perfect perhaps Philistines philosophy pleasure poem poet poetry practical Praxinoe prose Protestantism religion religious remarkable Saint Sainte-Beuve seems sense Shakspeare sister soul speak sphere Spinoza style talk thee things thou thought tion Tractatus Theologico-Politicus translation true truth Voltaire whole words Wordsworth writes
Populaire passages
Pagina 272 - 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 81 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Pagina 21 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not property safe? Is not every man able to say what he likes?
Pagina vii - To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and selfwill, it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline.
Pagina 39 - 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 20 - Review, 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, existC 2 ing as an organ of the political Dissenters, and for as much play of mind as may suit its being that; we have the Times, existing as an organ of the common, satisfied, well-to-do Englishman, and for as much play of mind as may suit its being that.
Pagina 61 - Il ira, cet ignorant dans l'art de bien dire, avec cette locution rude, avec cette phrase qui sent l'étranger, il ira en cette Grèce polie, la mère des philosophes et des orateurs ; et malgré la résistance du monde, il y établira plus d'églises que Platon n'ya gagné de disciples par cette éloquence qu'on a crue divine.
Pagina 289 - 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 233 - If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself.' ' I can sow, but I cannot build.' Joubert, however, makes no claim to be a great author; by renouncing all ambition to be this, by not trying to fit his ideas into a house, by making no compromise with words in spite of their difficulty, by being quite singleminded in...
Pagina 68 - ... that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness — look up towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines; and we may, perhaps, at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, "He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.