Essays in CriticismMacmillan and Company, 1883 - Всего страниц: 379 |
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... idea at first made a great impression on me ; not only because it is so consoling in itself , but also because it explained a phenomenon which in the summer of last year had , I confess , a good deal troubled me . At that time my ...
... idea at first made a great impression on me ; not only because it is so consoling in itself , but also because it explained a phenomenon which in the summer of last year had , I confess , a good deal troubled me . At that time my ...
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... idea , a beautiful but deluding idea , -and that the British nation has not yet , so entirely as the reviewer seems to imagine , found the last word of its philosophy . No , we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes , and I ...
... idea , a beautiful but deluding idea , -and that the British nation has not yet , so entirely as the reviewer seems to imagine , found the last word of its philosophy . No , we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes , and I ...
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... ideas ; the best ideas on every matter which litera- ture touches , current at the time . At any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very ...
... ideas ; the best ideas on every matter which litera- ture touches , current at the time . At any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very ...
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... ideas , if not absolutely true , yet true by com- parison with that which it displaces ; to make the best ideas prevail . Presently these new ideas reach society , the touch of truth is the touch of life , and there is a stir and growth ...
... ideas , if not absolutely true , yet true by com- parison with that which it displaces ; to make the best ideas prevail . Presently these new ideas reach society , the touch of truth is the touch of life , and there is a stir and growth ...
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... ideas in the highest degree animating and nourishing to the creative power ; society was , in the fullest measure , permeated by fresh thought , intelligent and alive . And this state of things is the true basis for the creative power's ...
... ideas in the highest degree animating and nourishing to the creative power ; society was , in the fullest measure , permeated by fresh thought , intelligent and alive . And this state of things is the true basis for the creative power's ...
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Стр. 325 - 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. 146 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Стр. 347 - 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. xi - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading PREFACE. xi 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...
Стр. 365 - 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. 19 - Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no more, and to leave alone all questions of practical consequences and applications, questions which will never fail to have due prominence given to them.
Стр. 213 - Praised be my Lord for our sister, the death of the body, from whom no man escapeth. Woe to him who dieth in mortal sin. Blessed are they who are found walking by thy most holy will, for the second death shall have no power to do them harm. Praise ye and bless the Lord, and give thanks unto him and serve him with great humility.
Стр. 18 - By keeping aloof from what is called " the practical view of things ; " by resolutely following the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches.
Стр. 21 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not property safe? Is not every man able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.
Стр. 366 - What hast thou now in thy thoughts ? with perfect openness thou mightest immediately answer, This or That; so that from thy words it should be plain that everything in thee is simple and benevolent, and such as befits a social animal, and one that cares not for thoughts about pleasure or sensual enjoyments at all, nor has any rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything else for which thou wouldst blush if thou shouldst say that thou hadst it in thy mind.