Mixed EssaysMacmillan, 1880 - 347 Seiten |
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action admirable amongst aristocracy aristocratic class artist beauty better Catholic university Catholicism character charm Church Church of England civilisation criticism culture delight democracy Eliza Cook England English Englishman epic equality Falkland Faust favour feel France French genius George Sand give Goethe Goethe's Götz human humanisation ideal ideas immense inequality instinct intellectual interest Ireland Irish Joseph de Maistre judgment Liberal liberty literature Lord lower class lycées Madame Sand manners middle class Milton mind modern nation nature never Nohant Paradise Lost party passion peasant perhaps poem poet poetry political power of conduct praise present primer prose Protestant Puritan reader reason religion religious says Scherer secondary instruction secondary schools sense sentiment Shakspeare Sir Charles Dilke social social equality society speak spirit State-action Stopford Brooke style superiority sure temper things thought tion true truth Ultramontanism upper class whole word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 25 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Seite 270 - 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 65 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Seite 210 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Seite 77 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Seite 271 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Seite 252 - What we know of Milton's character in domestic relations is, that he was severe and arbitrary. His family consisted of women ; and there appears in his books something like a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings.
Seite 100 - And thus they are thrown back upon themselves — upon a defective type of religion, a narrow range of intellect and knowledge, a stunted sense of beauty, a low standard of manners.
Seite 78 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Seite 270 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.