Essays in Criticism |
Отзывы - Написать отзыв
Не удалось найти ни одного отзыва.
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
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 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 multitude 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
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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!
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 74 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.