Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1869 - 317 pagina's |
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Pagina xx
... happiness . But it is un- deniable , also , that men may have the sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be ...
... happiness . But it is un- deniable , also , that men may have the sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be ...
Pagina 4
... happiness . But it is un- deniable , also , that men may have the sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be ...
... happiness . But it is un- deniable , also , that men may have the sense of exercising this free creative activity in other ways than in producing great works of literature or art ; if it were not so , all but a very few men would be ...
Pagina 20
... happiness may last . " Now obviously there is a peril for poor human nature in words and thoughts of such exuberant self - satisfaction , until we find ourselves safe in the streets of the Celestial City . " Das wenige verschwindet ...
... happiness may last . " Now obviously there is a peril for poor human nature in words and thoughts of such exuberant self - satisfaction , until we find ourselves safe in the streets of the Celestial City . " Das wenige verschwindet ...
Pagina 21
... happiness may last ! I ask you whether , the world over or in past history , there is anything like it ! " And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by insisting that the old Anglo - Saxon race would be still more superior to all ...
... happiness may last ! I ask you whether , the world over or in past history , there is anything like it ! " And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by insisting that the old Anglo - Saxon race would be still more superior to all ...
Pagina 22
... happiness ; " - what an element of grimness , bareness , and hideousness mixes with it and blurs it ; the workhouse , the dismal Map- perly Hills , how dismal those who have seem them will remember ; -the gloom , the smoke , the cold ...
... happiness ; " - what an element of grimness , bareness , and hideousness mixes with it and blurs it ; the workhouse , the dismal Map- perly Hills , how dismal those who have seem them will remember ; -the gloom , the smoke , the cold ...
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Academy admirable Adonis Attic Attic style beautiful Belgravia better Bossuet Cayla Centaur character charm Châteaubriand Chênaie Christian creative criticism divine England English Eugénie Eugénie de Guérin expression feeling France French French language French Revolution genius German give Goethe Goethe's Gorgo Greek Guérin Gustave Planche happiness Heine human ideas imagination intellectual intelligence Joubert Kinglake's La Chênaie Lamennais language liberty literary literature live Lord Lord Macaulay mankind Marcus Aurelius matters Maurice Maurice de Guérin Mdlle modern moral nation nature never note of provinciality one's pagan passion perfect perhaps Philistines philosophy play of mind pleasure poem poet poetry political practical Praised prophets prose Protestantism reading religion religious Saint Sainte-Beuve seems sense Shakspeare soul speak sphere Spinoza spirit spite style thee things thou thought thyself tion true truth Voltaire whole words Wordsworth writing
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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.