Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 pages |
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... eyes of others ; within , it is but the aliment of unrest , the oil cast upon the ever - gnawing fire of ambition , quickening into fresh vehemence the blaze which it stills for a moment . Moreover , this Man of Letters is not wholly ...
... eyes of others ; within , it is but the aliment of unrest , the oil cast upon the ever - gnawing fire of ambition , quickening into fresh vehemence the blaze which it stills for a moment . Moreover , this Man of Letters is not wholly ...
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... eyes of fiery scorn , " whether an order for a world is likely to come to your shop any morning . " Nevertheless his thinking and his writing have from first to last been dominated by a few great thoughts or ideas , and these are ...
... eyes of fiery scorn , " whether an order for a world is likely to come to your shop any morning . " Nevertheless his thinking and his writing have from first to last been dominated by a few great thoughts or ideas , and these are ...
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Peter Bayne. and philosophical open sesame of all his works . " To the eye of vulgar logic " -these are his words- " what is man ? An omnivorous biped that wears breeches . To the eye of pure reason what is he ? A soul , a spirit , and ...
Peter Bayne. and philosophical open sesame of all his works . " To the eye of vulgar logic " -these are his words- " what is man ? An omnivorous biped that wears breeches . To the eye of pure reason what is he ? A soul , a spirit , and ...
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... eyes look out through the darkness , which is around and within , for the light of a stern last morning . Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes there no hammering from the Rabenstein ? —their gallows must even now be o'building ...
... eyes look out through the darkness , which is around and within , for the light of a stern last morning . Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes there no hammering from the Rabenstein ? —their gallows must even now be o'building ...
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... eyes placidly on the moon , while all Europe and Africa are slumbering round them . The French have much wit , but little humour . What is the ethical result - the moral doctrine - of Sartor Resartus ? Teufelsdröckh , whose spiritual ...
... eyes placidly on the moon , while all Europe and Africa are slumbering round them . The French have much wit , but little humour . What is the ethical result - the moral doctrine - of Sartor Resartus ? Teufelsdröckh , whose spiritual ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 296 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.