LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS CARLYLE TENNYSON AND RUSKIN |
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... imagination with ideal beauty , a literary life would be the most enviable which the lot of this world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . The Man of Letters has no immutable , all - conquering volition , more than other men ; to ...
... imagination with ideal beauty , a literary life would be the most enviable which the lot of this world affords . But the truth is far otherwise . The Man of Letters has no immutable , all - conquering volition , more than other men ; to ...
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... imagination should be fired by the French Revolution , and that , when he had attained ma- turity of manhood , in the sense of having constructed a work- ing theory of life and affairs — come to terms with necessity , as he would ...
... imagination should be fired by the French Revolution , and that , when he had attained ma- turity of manhood , in the sense of having constructed a work- ing theory of life and affairs — come to terms with necessity , as he would ...
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... imagination , thou follow them , over broad France , into their clay hovels , into their garrets and hutches , the masses consist all of units . ” Every unit has his own pains and griefs , “ and if you prick him , he will bleed . " This ...
... imagination , thou follow them , over broad France , into their clay hovels , into their garrets and hutches , the masses consist all of units . ” Every unit has his own pains and griefs , “ and if you prick him , he will bleed . " This ...
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... imagining that Carlyle proposes actual worship to be rendered by man to man ; but it is no imagination that he attaches a mystical sacredness to the heroic character ; and it is this HIS HERO-WORSHIP.
... imagining that Carlyle proposes actual worship to be rendered by man to man ; but it is no imagination that he attaches a mystical sacredness to the heroic character ; and it is this HIS HERO-WORSHIP.
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... imaginative point of view , and has an effect which can hardly be described except as a kind of consecra- tion ; but it has not the same power to make spiritual corn grow and spiritual fruit ripen which is possessed by the light of the ...
... imaginative point of view , and has an effect which can hardly be described except as a kind of consecra- tion ; but it has not the same power to make spiritual corn grow and spiritual fruit ripen which is possessed by the light of the ...
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Page 287 - 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 319 - 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 294 - 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 281 - 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 287 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 291 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 205 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 281 - 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 204 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 202 - Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.