Points of ViewC. Scribner's sons, 1924 - 361 páginas |
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Página 26
... passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks . " I don't know whether the young Greek athlete won the race that he prayed for . But I think that after the prayer in which he put all things that he loved best under the protection ...
... passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks . " I don't know whether the young Greek athlete won the race that he prayed for . But I think that after the prayer in which he put all things that he loved best under the protection ...
Página 44
... passion , a rebirth of the mind and imagination ! If this miracle has happened , he feels , at forty , the possibility not merely of a new life but of a new kind of life opening before him . He sees the necessity of revising the ...
... passion , a rebirth of the mind and imagination ! If this miracle has happened , he feels , at forty , the possibility not merely of a new life but of a new kind of life opening before him . He sees the necessity of revising the ...
Página 52
... passion , wove them into a suggestive little narrative of its own , and thus pre- sented its case to the jury . The defense , on the other hand , argued with a good deal of piquancy and cogency that Flaubert had dealt with sensual passion ...
... passion , wove them into a suggestive little narrative of its own , and thus pre- sented its case to the jury . The defense , on the other hand , argued with a good deal of piquancy and cogency that Flaubert had dealt with sensual passion ...
Página 58
... sense of the eternity of form and the transience of passion , may at the same instant excite in another beholder such shamefastness that he will cry out for fig leaves , or such unruly emotions as , unchecked , may disrupt 58 POINTS OF ...
... sense of the eternity of form and the transience of passion , may at the same instant excite in another beholder such shamefastness that he will cry out for fig leaves , or such unruly emotions as , unchecked , may disrupt 58 POINTS OF ...
Página 73
... passion are innocuous to public morals , is it in the interest of literature for authors to enter into rivalry with one another for honors in the field of pornographic art ? Is it wise to create a situation in which no novel will sell ...
... passion are innocuous to public morals , is it in the interest of literature for authors to enter into rivalry with one another for honors in the field of pornographic art ? Is it wise to create a situation in which no novel will sell ...
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Página 66 - All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 161 - The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
Página 73 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Página 143 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
Página 162 - I want the flower and fruit of a man ; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious.
Página 162 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 253 - When I a verse shall make, Know I have pray'd thee, For old religion's sake, Saint Ben, to aid me. Make the way smooth for me, When, I, thy Herrick, Honouring thee on my knee Offer my Lyric. Candles l11 give to thee, And a new altar ; And thou, Saint Ben, shalt be Writ in my psalter.
Página 66 - But that which did please me beyond any thing in the whole world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...
Página 156 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigor and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling, that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Página 160 - Hundreds of writers may be found in every longcivilized nation, who for a short time believe, and make others believe, that they see and utter truths, who do not of themselves clothe one thought in its natural garment, but who feed unconsciously upon the language created by the primary writers of the country, those, namely, who hold primarily on Nature.