The Need for Art in Life: A Lecture Delivered at the University of ManchesterG. A. Shaw, publisher to University lectures association, 1915 - 106 Seiten |
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The Need for Art in Life: A Lecture Delivered at the University of Manchester I. B. Stoughton Holborn Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2014 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 100 - Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee. Child of my bowels, Anselm? Ah, ye hope To revel down my villas while I gasp Bricked o'er with beggar's mouldy travertine Which Gandolf from his tomb-top chuckles at!
Seite 35 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 100 - And then how I shall lie through centuries, And hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all day long, And feel the steady candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook, And stretch my feet forth straight as stone can point, And let the bedclothes, for a mortcloth, drop Into great laps and folds of...
Seite 94 - There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private intercourse we are not suspicious of one another, nor angry with our neighbor if he does what he likes; we do not put on sour looks at him which, though harmless, are not pleasant.
Seite 26 - Tis in such shifts As these, I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Seite 100 - Saint Praxed's ear to pray Horses for ye, and brown Greek manuscripts, And mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs?
Seite 56 - Their bodies they devote to their country as though they belonged to other men ; their true self is their mind, which is most truly their own when employed in her service.
Seite 113 - ... there must be a relationship to that environment, and it must to a great extent enter into his concept of morality. If that environment is primarily regarded as material and possessed of what we call material qualities, then his morality will rest upon a material basis, a basis of material acquisition and a material body. His aim for himself and others will be to secure these material things and minister to his material body. If his conception of virtue is altruistic, then he will bestow material...
Seite 109 - And there you might see whole populations trooping out in the springtime, not to a football match, not to a Coney Island, nor to make money, but to enjoy the beauty of the fruit blossoms of the early year. We may think that we shall set the world right on two-thirds of a man ; but we never shall. We go to these unfortunate dwellers in the slums and we take them our science, our economic science, our sanitary science, our hygiene, and are surprised at the inadequacy of the result. Or we tackle them...
Seite 12 - It is not too much to say that our whole system of society is rotten from top to bottom, and the Social Environment as a whole, in relation to our possibilities and our claims, is the worst that the world has ever seen.