Our Great Writers, Or, Popular Chapters on Some Leading AuthorsE. Stock, 1884 - 275 Seiten |
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... truth and religious truth are both emanations from the same Divine source of light ; and surely , in presence of Him who is the Maker of all , it becomes us to say we fear not , but are grateful for , every true source of knowledge ...
... truth and religious truth are both emanations from the same Divine source of light ; and surely , in presence of Him who is the Maker of all , it becomes us to say we fear not , but are grateful for , every true source of knowledge ...
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... truth , in all its light , and with all its reflections . ' It is the complex and most perfect expression of nature . Literature is therefore a truer expression of nature than science , just as the artist's painting is truer , because ...
... truth , in all its light , and with all its reflections . ' It is the complex and most perfect expression of nature . Literature is therefore a truer expression of nature than science , just as the artist's painting is truer , because ...
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... truth as he does , so that its perception is pleasant . The thoughts of the literary man come home to the heart , and we have pleasure from their beauty as well as from their truth . M. Taine says : ' They are instructive , because they ...
... truth as he does , so that its perception is pleasant . The thoughts of the literary man come home to the heart , and we have pleasure from their beauty as well as from their truth . M. Taine says : ' They are instructive , because they ...
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... truth we get from it is so human , and touches us nearer than all the definitions of the catechism or the logic of the schools . We want this divine , blessed , saving truth always to wear the human garb which our great Father put upon ...
... truth we get from it is so human , and touches us nearer than all the definitions of the catechism or the logic of the schools . We want this divine , blessed , saving truth always to wear the human garb which our great Father put upon ...
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... mind is stored with a knowledge of the great fundamental truths of nature , and of the laws of her operations ; one who , no stunted ascetic , is full of life and fire , but whose passions are trained to come to IO OUR GREAT WRITERS .
... mind is stored with a knowledge of the great fundamental truths of nature , and of the laws of her operations ; one who , no stunted ascetic , is full of life and fire , but whose passions are trained to come to IO OUR GREAT WRITERS .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Arminian atheism beautiful better blank verse Burns Burns's Carlyle character Chaucer Christian Church culture death delightful divine doubt doubtless Dublin earnest England English epic evil expression eyes fact faith fancy father fear feeling felt genius give Goldsmith greatest Hamlet hear heart heaven highest honour Hugh Miller human humour Ireland Irish Johnson kind knew lady learned less light literary literature live London Long Parliament Lycidas Milton mind moral nation nature never noble Paradise Lost passage passion phantom called poem poet poetic poetry poor Puritan religion satire scene seems sense sentiment Shakespeare Shandy Shelley Shelley's song soul spirit Stella Sterne Sterne's strange sublime sweet Swift Tennyson Thackeray thee things thou thought tion Tristram Shandy true truth uncle Uncle Toby verse wonderful words writing written wrote Yorick young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 246 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Seite 194 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Seite 49 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Seite 109 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Seite 141 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Seite 97 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 52 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Seite 251 - 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...
Seite 103 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Seite 216 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.