Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 páginas |
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... truths they had expounded , facts they had stated , lessons they had taught . In writing I found it practically impossible to divest myself of the critical function so completely as I had pur- posed . When I differed in opinion from the ...
... truths they had expounded , facts they had stated , lessons they had taught . In writing I found it practically impossible to divest myself of the critical function so completely as I had pur- posed . When I differed in opinion from the ...
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... appropriate food , and surrounding the imagination with ideal beauty , a literary life would be the most enviable which the lot of this world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . 1-2 CHAPTER THOMAS CARLYLE THE SCHEME OF HIS LIFE.
... appropriate food , and surrounding the imagination with ideal beauty , a literary life would be the most enviable which the lot of this world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . 1-2 CHAPTER THOMAS CARLYLE THE SCHEME OF HIS LIFE.
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Peter Bayne. world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . The Man of Letters has no immutable , all - conquering volition , more than other men ; to under- stand and to perform are two very different things with him as with every one ...
Peter Bayne. world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . The Man of Letters has no immutable , all - conquering volition , more than other men ; to under- stand and to perform are two very different things with him as with every one ...
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... truth in any system framed by man , and that , if you train yourself to look at nature through the coloured spectacles of any one theory , however comprehensive , you will see falsely , par- tially , or superficially . One verified fact ...
... truth in any system framed by man , and that , if you train yourself to look at nature through the coloured spectacles of any one theory , however comprehensive , you will see falsely , par- tially , or superficially . One verified fact ...
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... truth ; it is on paradox , extravagance , glittering superficiality , that the plaudits of the crowd are showered . All is dead save spirit — the spirit , man , the spirit , God : - that is the fundamental doctrine of Mr. Carlyle , the ...
... truth ; it is on paradox , extravagance , glittering superficiality , that the plaudits of the crowd are showered . All is dead save spirit — the spirit , man , the spirit , God : - that is the fundamental doctrine of Mr. Carlyle , the ...
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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.