Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1869 - 317 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... 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 direc- tion given to this ...
... 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 direc- tion given to this ...
Pagina 17
... 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 direc- tion given to this ...
... 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 direc- tion given to this ...
Pagina 45
... 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 46
... 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 ...
Pagina 90
... remarkable in him , his own genuine feeling towards him being one of indulgent compassion . But the intuition of Guérin , more discerning than the logic of his master , instinctively felt what there was com- manding and tragic in ...
... remarkable in him , his own genuine feeling towards him being one of indulgent compassion . But the intuition of Guérin , more discerning than the logic of his master , instinctively felt what there was com- manding and tragic in ...
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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.