Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 páginas |
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... interests of mankind becomes visible here and there in the book . This gloomy picture of a city by night , though evincing a descriptive power which it would be diffi- cult to match in the books of any period , does less , per- haps ...
... interests of mankind becomes visible here and there in the book . This gloomy picture of a city by night , though evincing a descriptive power which it would be diffi- cult to match in the books of any period , does less , per- haps ...
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... interest . We saw the transcendent import- ance which he attached to the principles laid down in Sartor Resartus ; and the French Revolution furnished him , from what he styles the Bible of world - history , with an impressive text on ...
... interest . We saw the transcendent import- ance which he attached to the principles laid down in Sartor Resartus ; and the French Revolution furnished him , from what he styles the Bible of world - history , with an impressive text on ...
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... interest , oftenest in silence , at what the time did bring : therewith edify , instruct , nourish thyself , or were it but amuse and gratify thyself , as it is given thee . These words prove that Carlyle contemplated the French ...
... interest , oftenest in silence , at what the time did bring : therewith edify , instruct , nourish thyself , or were it but amuse and gratify thyself , as it is given thee . These words prove that Carlyle contemplated the French ...
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... interest in his etchings ; but I have never discovered even a " half- cruel " laugh in Turner : and grim , almost uncanny , as is the humour of Carlyle in the History of the French Revolu- tion , there is no cruelty in it . I could not ...
... interest in his etchings ; but I have never discovered even a " half- cruel " laugh in Turner : and grim , almost uncanny , as is the humour of Carlyle in the History of the French Revolu- tion , there is no cruelty in it . I could not ...
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... interests him without end . If Friar Bacon's brass head , in Greene's comedy , had spoken to him , he certainly would not have let it crack from want of respectful appreciation of its remarks , " time is " and " time was . " Most people ...
... interests him without end . If Friar Bacon's brass head , in Greene's comedy , had spoken to him , he certainly would not have let it crack from want of respectful appreciation of its remarks , " time is " and " time was . " Most people ...
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Página 296 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Página 340 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Página 286 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Página 303 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Página 296 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Página 286 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Página 303 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Página 145 - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Página 284 - Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Página 222 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.