Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1869 - 317 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... follow them . Such an epoch of expansion seems to be opening in this country . In the first place all danger of a hostile forcible pressure of foreign ideas upon our practice has long disappeared ; like the traveller in the fable ...
... follow them . Such an epoch of expansion seems to be opening in this country . In the first place all danger of a hostile forcible pressure of foreign ideas upon our practice has long disappeared ; like the traveller in the fable ...
Pagina 17
... follow them . Such an epoch of expansion seems to be opening in this country . In the first place all danger of a hostile forcible pressure of foreign ideas upon our practice has long disappeared ; like the traveller in the fable ...
... follow them . Such an epoch of expansion seems to be opening in this country . In the first place all danger of a hostile forcible pressure of foreign ideas upon our practice has long disappeared ; like the traveller in the fable ...
Pagina 28
... follow this coarse and indiscrimi- nate method . It is unfortunately possible for a man in pursuit of truth to write a book which reposes upon a false conception . Even the practical consequences of a book are to genuine criticism no ...
... follow this coarse and indiscrimi- nate method . It is unfortunately possible for a man in pursuit of truth to write a book which reposes upon a false conception . Even the practical consequences of a book are to genuine criticism no ...
Pagina 44
... follow the law of their nature ; man alone has an impulse leading him to set up some other law to control the bent of his nature . This holds good , of course , as to moral matters , as well as intellectual matters : and it is of moral ...
... follow the law of their nature ; man alone has an impulse leading him to set up some other law to control the bent of his nature . This holds good , of course , as to moral matters , as well as intellectual matters : and it is of moral ...
Pagina 65
... follow the winding mountain paths , beneath arching boughs all veiled and dim with blossom , -paths that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down in scented undulation , steep to the blue water , studded ...
... follow the winding mountain paths , beneath arching boughs all veiled and dim with blossom , -paths that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down in scented undulation , steep to the blue water , studded ...
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Pagina 200 - 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 210 - 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 49 - 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 227 - From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him 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 xxi - ... 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 74 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Pagina xxii - It is the business of the critical power, as I said in the words already quoted, "in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is.
Pagina 37 - ... 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.
Pagina 14 - ... the best race in the world;' by the Ilissus there was no Wragg, poor thing! And 'our unrivalled happiness;' — what an element of grimness, bareness, and hideousness mixes with it and blurs it; the workhouse, the dismal Mapperly Hills, — how dismal those who have seen them will remember; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! 'I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?
Pagina xxii - ... the creation of a modern poet, to be worth much, implies a great critical effort behind it; else it must be a comparatively poor, barren, and shortlived affair.