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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... writer states this not with any idea of forestalling criticism ; but rather that his readers may know that the task has been taken up con amore . The nature of the views advanced , and the persistent attempts made to find out and to fix ...
... writer states this not with any idea of forestalling criticism ; but rather that his readers may know that the task has been taken up con amore . The nature of the views advanced , and the persistent attempts made to find out and to fix ...
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... write ; and if it be a true one , then to practically adjust , not only our words and thoughts , but also our acts and lives thereby . This is the claim they have over us as thinking men if they are indeed our Great Teachers . The writer ...
... write ; and if it be a true one , then to practically adjust , not only our words and thoughts , but also our acts and lives thereby . This is the claim they have over us as thinking men if they are indeed our Great Teachers . The writer ...
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... man does not happen to be either , then from all the various points of the shifting compass of criticism come blasts of condemnation . Perhaps no single English writer has caused more perplexity to 2 THREE GREAT TEACHERS .
... man does not happen to be either , then from all the various points of the shifting compass of criticism come blasts of condemnation . Perhaps no single English writer has caused more perplexity to 2 THREE GREAT TEACHERS .
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... writer has caused more perplexity to the classifying mind than Thomas Carlyle . He resolutely refused to range himself under any label whatever , and it was not till a few spirits began to name themselves Carlyleans that the labellers ...
... writer has caused more perplexity to the classifying mind than Thomas Carlyle . He resolutely refused to range himself under any label whatever , and it was not till a few spirits began to name themselves Carlyleans that the labellers ...
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... writer even before he put pen to paper ) of these surprisingly real and life - like portraits , of men , too , of so different and , indeed , almost irreconcilable types of character ; and yet where nought is extenuated and nought set ...
... writer even before he put pen to paper ) of these surprisingly real and life - like portraits , of men , too , of so different and , indeed , almost irreconcilable types of character ; and yet where nought is extenuated and nought set ...
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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