LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS CARLYLE TENNYSON AND RUSKIN |
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... better , in commencing our talk about him , than read it over . THE MAN OF LETTERS . If to know wisdom were to practise it ; if fame brought true dignity and peace of mind ; or happiness consisted in nourishing the intellect with its ...
... better , in commencing our talk about him , than read it over . THE MAN OF LETTERS . If to know wisdom were to practise it ; if fame brought true dignity and peace of mind ; or happiness consisted in nourishing the intellect with its ...
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... better aims than power or pleasure , and withstand the total sovereignty of Mammon in this earth . They are the vanguard in the march of mind ; the intellectual backwoodsmen , reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the ...
... better aims than power or pleasure , and withstand the total sovereignty of Mammon in this earth . They are the vanguard in the march of mind ; the intellectual backwoodsmen , reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the ...
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... all were quickly enough blown out into a state of windy argumentativeness ; whereby the better sort had soon to end in sick , impotent scepticism ; the worser sort ex- CANNOT BE A MINISTER . 19 plode in spiritual self 18 THOMAS CARLYLE .
... all were quickly enough blown out into a state of windy argumentativeness ; whereby the better sort had soon to end in sick , impotent scepticism ; the worser sort ex- CANNOT BE A MINISTER . 19 plode in spiritual self 18 THOMAS CARLYLE .
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... better truth ; thus hard granite rock will crumble down into soil , under the blessed skyey influences ; and cover itself with verdure , with fruitage , and umbrage . But , as for false- hood , which , in like contrary manner , grows ...
... better truth ; thus hard granite rock will crumble down into soil , under the blessed skyey influences ; and cover itself with verdure , with fruitage , and umbrage . But , as for false- hood , which , in like contrary manner , grows ...
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... better illustration than Mr. Ruskin's passage could be found of the saturation of our atmosphere in these times by hero - worship . The brilliant souls are never to be told that they are to blame ; sunt superis sua jura ; the laws of ...
... better illustration than Mr. Ruskin's passage could be found of the saturation of our atmosphere in these times by hero - worship . The brilliant souls are never to be told that they are to blame ; sunt superis sua jura ; the laws of ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Alfred de Musset Arthur Hallam battle BATTLE OF HOHENFRIEDBERG beauty believe better Burg-graf Cape Horn Carlyle Carlyle's CHAPTER Christian Church Cloth Coleridge Cromwell dead death deep Divine doubt earth England English eyes face fact faith father feeling Frederick William French Revolution Friedrich genius Glen Farg Goethe Gundling hand heart heaven hero hero-worship Hohenzollern Homer honor human imagination John Sterling justice kind King Latter-day Pamphlets less light literary living look Majesty means Memoriam ment mind misery moral nature never noble pantheistic Parliament person poem poet poetry Prussian reader religion round Ruskin Sans-culottism Sartor Resartus seems sense shadow Shakspeare Silesia SIMEON STYLITES sincere sorrow soul speak spirit stanzas Sterling success sympathy Tennyson things thou thought tion true truth Turner universe veracity verse voice Voltaire whole words worship writings
Pasajes populares
Página 287 - 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 319 - 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 294 - 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 281 - 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 287 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Página 291 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 205 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Página 281 - 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 204 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 202 - Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.