Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 pages |
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Page 84
... leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is most finely and vitally beautiful in our planet , make resistance . Philanthropy bears up in the teeth of that mighty ebb - tide , to move with which , like driftwood ...
... leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is most finely and vitally beautiful in our planet , make resistance . Philanthropy bears up in the teeth of that mighty ebb - tide , to move with which , like driftwood ...
Page 116
... leaves them unvisited by conscientious qualms in the enjoy- ment of their champagne and their harlots . These two ... leaf after leaf continues to change The Old and the New . 117 colour and to 116 Thomas Carlyle .
... leaves them unvisited by conscientious qualms in the enjoy- ment of their champagne and their harlots . These two ... leaf after leaf continues to change The Old and the New . 117 colour and to 116 Thomas Carlyle .
Page 121
... leaves -is vague , ineffectual , practically equivalent to unbelief . I would give all I have ever seen from Sterling's pen for a sight of what he said in elucidation and support of this thesis . But his biographer , who permits him to ...
... leaves -is vague , ineffectual , practically equivalent to unbelief . I would give all I have ever seen from Sterling's pen for a sight of what he said in elucidation and support of this thesis . But his biographer , who permits him to ...
Page 197
... leaf , and the works on which his poetical reputation rests had been long since produced . It is worth noting that Tennyson , in his boyhood , was insatiably fond of the poetry of Scott . No two poets could be more strongly contrasted ...
... leaf , and the works on which his poetical reputation rests had been long since produced . It is worth noting that Tennyson , in his boyhood , was insatiably fond of the poetry of Scott . No two poets could be more strongly contrasted ...
Page 205
... leaves , when suddenly the million tapers of the Caliphat illuminate the scene ; and we , as well as the poet , are drawn on in wondering curiosity until we are in presence of the monarch . Six columns , three on either side , Pure ...
... leaves , when suddenly the million tapers of the Caliphat illuminate the scene ; and we , as well as the poet , are drawn on in wondering curiosity until we are in presence of the monarch . Six columns , three on either side , Pure ...
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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.