Essays in CriticismMacmillan, 1869 - Всего страниц: 317 |
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Стр. xix
... prose or verse , is quite harmless . ” It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , voluntarily doom himself to ...
... prose or verse , is quite harmless . ” It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , voluntarily doom himself to ...
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... prose or verse , is quite harmless . ” It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , voluntarily doom himself to ...
... prose or verse , is quite harmless . ” It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , voluntarily doom himself to ...
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... prose they are of first - rate importance . In its prose literature , there- fore , and in the routine of intellectual work generally , a nation with no particular gifts for these will not be so successful . These are what , as I have ...
... prose they are of first - rate importance . In its prose literature , there- fore , and in the routine of intellectual work generally , a nation with no particular gifts for these will not be so successful . These are what , as I have ...
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... prose ! No doubt his verse suffers from the same defects which impair his prose , and he cannot express himself with real success in it ; but how much more powerful a per- sonage does he appear in it , by dint of feeling , and of ...
... prose ! No doubt his verse suffers from the same defects which impair his prose , and he cannot express himself with real success in it ; but how much more powerful a per- sonage does he appear in it , by dint of feeling , and of ...
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... prose , that branch of literature where intelli- gence proper is , so to speak , all in all . In this branch it may show many grave faults to which the want of a quick , flexible intelligence , and of the strict standard which such an ...
... prose , that branch of literature where intelli- gence proper is , so to speak , all in all . In this branch it may show many grave faults to which the want of a quick , flexible intelligence , and of the strict standard which such an ...
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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.