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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... clear lambent flame . The artificial involvements of our time may be transmuted into pathways of return to primitive repose , simplicity , and fruitfulness . They who can and will , at great self - sacrifice , direct us wisely in this ...
... clear lambent flame . The artificial involvements of our time may be transmuted into pathways of return to primitive repose , simplicity , and fruitfulness . They who can and will , at great self - sacrifice , direct us wisely in this ...
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... clear solution of this problem , and actually leaving real work undone in the hope of obtain- ing a satisfactory settlement of it . It is the perennial difficulty this the reconciliation of man's higher aspi rations with the ...
... clear solution of this problem , and actually leaving real work undone in the hope of obtain- ing a satisfactory settlement of it . It is the perennial difficulty this the reconciliation of man's higher aspi rations with the ...
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... clear and universal men . " He possesses one of the subtlest and most penetrating intellects ; in any department of abstract inquiry he would have succeeded ; indeed , his high distinction in both branches of mathe- matics while yet a ...
... clear and universal men . " He possesses one of the subtlest and most penetrating intellects ; in any department of abstract inquiry he would have succeeded ; indeed , his high distinction in both branches of mathe- matics while yet a ...
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... clearly into it , and got , in a sense to love it , before he would engage to treat of it at all . Thus , although the reader may sometimes disagree with the opinions of the essayist , he cannot fail to admire the evident heartiness ...
... clearly into it , and got , in a sense to love it , before he would engage to treat of it at all . Thus , although the reader may sometimes disagree with the opinions of the essayist , he cannot fail to admire the evident heartiness ...
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... clearly decisive : - " Of literature , " he says , " in all ways be shy rather than otherwise at present : there where thou art , work , work ; whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with the hand of a man , not of a phantasm ; be ...
... clearly decisive : - " Of literature , " he says , " in all ways be shy rather than otherwise at present : there where thou art , work , work ; whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with the hand of a man , not of a phantasm ; 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