Essays in Criticism, Nummer 13Macmillan, 1865 - 302 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... sphere , with the highest respect ; for its success , within its own sphere , has been prodigious . But what is law in one place , is not law in another ; what is law here to - day , is not law even here to - morrow ; and as for ...
... sphere , with the highest respect ; for its success , within its own sphere , has been prodigious . But what is law in one place , is not law in another ; what is law here to - day , is not law even here to - morrow ; and as for ...
Pagina 13
... sphere of politics and practice . Joubert has said beautifully : " C'est la force et le droit qui règlent toutes ... sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , in- deed , a prodigious and memorable course , but ...
... sphere of politics and practice . Joubert has said beautifully : " C'est la force et le droit qui règlent toutes ... sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , in- deed , a prodigious and memorable course , but ...
Pagina 16
... sphere , and meddling rashly with practice ; but they are inevitably extended to ideas as such , and to the whole life of intelligence ; practice is everything , a free play of the mind is nothing . The notion of the free play of the ...
... sphere , and meddling rashly with practice ; but they are inevitably extended to ideas as such , and to the whole life of intelligence ; practice is everything , a free play of the mind is nothing . The notion of the free play of the ...
Pagina 20
... sphere , has so little detached itself from practice , has been so directly polemical and controver- sial , that it has so ill accomplished , in this country , its best spiritual work ; which is to keep man from 20 THE FUNCTION OF ...
... sphere , has so little detached itself from practice , has been so directly polemical and controver- sial , that it has so ill accomplished , in this country , its best spiritual work ; which is to keep man from 20 THE FUNCTION OF ...
Pagina 23
... sphere , to say the truth , perfectly unvital , a sphere in which spiritual progression is impossible . But let criticism leave church - rates and the franchise alone , and in the most candid spirit , without a single lurking thought of ...
... sphere , to say the truth , perfectly unvital , a sphere in which spiritual progression is impossible . But let criticism leave church - rates and the franchise alone , and in the most candid spirit , without a single lurking thought of ...
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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.