Three Great Teachers of Our Time: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Spirit and Purpose Animating Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinSmith, Elder and Company, 1865 - 255 páginas |
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... believe , with so little reason and with so much blindness as against Thomas Carlyle . I can almost fancy I hear him answer - not with con- tempt , but rather with the " wise indifference of the wise " -in some such words as these ...
... believe , with so little reason and with so much blindness as against Thomas Carlyle . I can almost fancy I hear him answer - not with con- tempt , but rather with the " wise indifference of the wise " -in some such words as these ...
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... believe to be almost unspeakable ; but I can by no means worship the like of these . What great human soul , what great thought , what great noble thing that one could worship , or loyally admire , has yet been produced there ? None ...
... believe to be almost unspeakable ; but I can by no means worship the like of these . What great human soul , what great thought , what great noble thing that one could worship , or loyally admire , has yet been produced there ? None ...
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... a history which were great ! His Koran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity ; we do not believe , like him , that God wrote that ! The great man here , too , as always is a force from the great deeps . 58 THREE GREAT TEACHERS .
... a history which were great ! His Koran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity ; we do not believe , like him , that God wrote that ! The great man here , too , as always is a force from the great deeps . 58 THREE GREAT TEACHERS .
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... believe he was specially " the Prophet of God . " Such a belief , in its ulti- mate practical issue , comes to be sceptical , because it would necessarily lead the man who held it to regard himself as superior to the mass of men , and ...
... believe he was specially " the Prophet of God . " Such a belief , in its ulti- mate practical issue , comes to be sceptical , because it would necessarily lead the man who held it to regard himself as superior to the mass of men , and ...
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... believe that everything a man does or can do partakes of the very essence of his character , and will discover it to those who have insight enough , so the man may be held to lie within the poet hidden from the casual eye , it may be ...
... believe that everything a man does or can do partakes of the very essence of his character , and will discover it to those who have insight enough , so the man may be held to lie within the poet hidden from the casual eye , it may be ...
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abstract Alfred Tennyson arbitrary artist assertion Barabbas beautiful become Carlyle's character Christian circumstances constantly criticism David Elginbrod deep deeper duty earnest earth elements Enoch Arden essays essentially eternal expression fact faculties faith fate feeling force Friedrich give Goethe harmony heart hero Hero-worship heroic human idea individual influence intellect Latter-day Pamphlets laws lives Locksley Hall Mahomet Maud means Memoriam mind Modern Painters mood moral morbid nature never noble Novalis once outward Palace of Art perhaps poem poet poetical poetry political economy poor practical principle prose Protestantism purpose racter reader regard relation reverence rude Ruskin Sartor Sartor Resartus seems sense shadow Shakspeare silent simply sorrow soul speak sphere spirit strange symbols Tennyson thee things Thomas Carlyle thou thought tion Tithonus true truly truth unconscious verse vital wasted youth whole Wilhelm William Burnes words worship write
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Página 112 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 98 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Página 169 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That...
Página 105 - What seem'd my worth since I began ; For merit lives from man to man, And not from man, O Lord, to thee. Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth ; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.
Página 112 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Página 46 - God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, to all knowledge, " selfknowledge," and much else, so soon as work fitly begins. Knowledge ! the knowledge that will hold good in working, cleave thou to that; for Nature herself accredits that, says Yea to that. Properly, thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working : the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge ; a thing to be argued of in schools, a thing floating in the clouds in endless logic vortices till we try it...
Página 7 - I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time write: ' It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.
Página 174 - Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man — So glorious in his beauty and thy choice, Who madest him thy chosen that he seem'd To his great heart none other than a God! I ask'd thee, "Give me immortality.
Página 142 - Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind ; It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill...
Página 183 - An' I niver knaw'd whot a mean'd but I thowt a 'ad summut to saay, An' I thowt a said whot a owt to "a said an