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Pagina 4
The love for wise sayings had always been present in Hebrew literature ( e.g. , II
Sam . xiv ) , but during the Post - Exilic period , and especially after the Greek
influence had begun to fashion thought , it found its most remarkable expression
...
The love for wise sayings had always been present in Hebrew literature ( e.g. , II
Sam . xiv ) , but during the Post - Exilic period , and especially after the Greek
influence had begun to fashion thought , it found its most remarkable expression
...
Pagina 12
... the prudishness which begets shame , is willing to present us with the
substance of his own most private thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most
endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself
than he is .
... the prudishness which begets shame , is willing to present us with the
substance of his own most private thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most
endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself
than he is .
Pagina 17
It is sufficient for the present purpose if we observe that no existing form of
literature exhibits so much flexibility or allows so wide a field for the display of
idiosyncrasy . The essay may obey its earliest impulse and be sermonic , as is
distinctly ...
It is sufficient for the present purpose if we observe that no existing form of
literature exhibits so much flexibility or allows so wide a field for the display of
idiosyncrasy . The essay may obey its earliest impulse and be sermonic , as is
distinctly ...
Pagina 58
The present eye catches the present object ” -to have and to hold while it may ;
and abhors , on any terms , to have it torn from us , and nothing left in its room . It
is the pang of parting , the unloosing our grasp , the breaking asunder some ...
The present eye catches the present object ” -to have and to hold while it may ;
and abhors , on any terms , to have it torn from us , and nothing left in its room . It
is the pang of parting , the unloosing our grasp , the breaking asunder some ...
Pagina 59
The mountaineer will not leave his rock , nor the savage his hut ; neither are we
willing to give up our present mode of life , with all its advantages and
disadvantages , for any other that could be substituted for it . No man would , I
think ...
The mountaineer will not leave his rock , nor the savage his hut ; neither are we
willing to give up our present mode of life , with all its advantages and
disadvantages , for any other that could be substituted for it . No man would , I
think ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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Pagina 330 - Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 319 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Pagina 29 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love : neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, " That the arch " flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have " intelligence, is a man's self...
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Pagina 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 237 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Pagina 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 289 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play ! " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...