Social Ideals in English LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1898 - 329 páginas |
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... DICKENS AND THACKERAY III . THE AWAKENING : ' SARTOR RESARTUS " IV . THE INDICTMENT 66 V. THE NEW INTUITION VI . GEORGE ELIOT AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE VII . A GLIMPSE OF AMERICA · VIII . WHAT TO DO : ACCORDING TO CARLYLE IX . WHAT TO ...
... DICKENS AND THACKERAY III . THE AWAKENING : ' SARTOR RESARTUS " IV . THE INDICTMENT 66 V. THE NEW INTUITION VI . GEORGE ELIOT AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE VII . A GLIMPSE OF AMERICA · VIII . WHAT TO DO : ACCORDING TO CARLYLE IX . WHAT TO ...
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... Dickens and Thackeray uncovered and revealed the social layers of early Victorian England . About 1850 , their simple reproductions gave place to the novel of protest and arraignment ; this in its turn is yielding nowadays to the novel ...
... Dickens and Thackeray uncovered and revealed the social layers of early Victorian England . About 1850 , their simple reproductions gave place to the novel of protest and arraignment ; this in its turn is yielding nowadays to the novel ...
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... Dickens and Thackeray ; we have had George Eliot , George Meredith , and Thomas Hardy ; we have had for lesser folk , Reade , Trol- lope , Kingsley , Disraeli , Macdonald . Our social novels illustrate and supplement our social essays ...
... Dickens and Thackeray ; we have had George Eliot , George Meredith , and Thomas Hardy ; we have had for lesser folk , Reade , Trol- lope , Kingsley , Disraeli , Macdonald . Our social novels illustrate and supplement our social essays ...
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... Dickens ' " Hard Times , " Reade's " Put Yourself in His Place , " and Mrs. Gaskell's 66 Mary Barton . " Read " Yeast , " and the condi- tion of the agricultural poor is forced upon us ; " Daniel Deronda , " and the Hebrew problem ...
... Dickens ' " Hard Times , " Reade's " Put Yourself in His Place , " and Mrs. Gaskell's 66 Mary Barton . " Read " Yeast , " and the condi- tion of the agricultural poor is forced upon us ; " Daniel Deronda , " and the Hebrew problem ...
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... literature before 1880 reveals the gather- ing of the forces . To discover the issue was the work of that period . To face it is the work of our own . 66 CHAPTER II SOCIAL PICTURES : DICKENS AND THACKERAY IF OUTLINES 127.
... literature before 1880 reveals the gather- ing of the forces . To discover the issue was the work of that period . To face it is the work of our own . 66 CHAPTER II SOCIAL PICTURES : DICKENS AND THACKERAY IF OUTLINES 127.
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Página 197 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
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Página 207 - Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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Página 148 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Página 186 - Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
Página 238 - He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Página 217 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Página 197 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
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