The Victorian Age in ProseAlan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones Rodopi, 1988 - 241 pagina's |
Inhoudsopgave
THE WHIG VIEW OF HISTORY | 35 |
SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FICTION | 49 |
THE RISE OF SOCIOLOGY | 56 |
THE RELIGIOUS DILEMMA | 102 |
MATTHEW ARNOLD | 136 |
EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY | 188 |
ART AND SOCIETY | 207 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action aristocratic class Arnold assent authority Barbarians bathos beauty become believe better called Carlyle character Church civilisation common condition culture divine doctrine England evil existence eyes F. D. Maurice fact faith feeling force Frederic Harrison Giorgione give habits happiness hope human nature human perfection idea ideal imagination increase individual influence intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill kind labour little Samson living look machinery machines mankind matter Matthew Arnold means middle-class mind moral never opinions passion persons Philistines philosophical pleasure poetry political poor Populace powers of sympathy present principle produced progress Protestantism religion religious organisations right reason Samson seemed sense social society sophisms soul speak spirit struggle sweetness and light T. H. Huxley things Thomas Arnold thou thought tion true truth Victorian wealth Whig whole Wilhelm von Humboldt words
Populaire passages
Pagina 105 - I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Pagina 195 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Pagina 109 - To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and...
Pagina 58 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be a great joy and happiness to you...
Pagina 195 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
Pagina 22 - O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,
Pagina 21 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Pagina 15 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee! Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer...
Pagina 227 - Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight ; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also ; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is.
Pagina 228 - Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.