Social Ideals in English LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1898 - 329 páginas |
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... facts , yet charges those facts with a vision - like solemnity , and uplifts them into enduring significance . One questions whether Langland need have failed as an artist had he lived when prose was developed as a literary form ; for ...
... facts , yet charges those facts with a vision - like solemnity , and uplifts them into enduring significance . One questions whether Langland need have failed as an artist had he lived when prose was developed as a literary form ; for ...
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... fact . His work is a series of symbolic dreams . Only the valiant lover of books can thoroughly explore the wide wilderness of allegory in which wanders this brooding soul ; but any lover of life can discover and follow the central ...
... fact . His work is a series of symbolic dreams . Only the valiant lover of books can thoroughly explore the wide wilderness of allegory in which wanders this brooding soul ; but any lover of life can discover and follow the central ...
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... fact , " that there is no room for philosophy in the courts of princes . " " 1 It is probable that More was haunted , all the time that he was relieving his mind in this refreshing conversation , by a sense of its subtle selfishness ...
... fact , " that there is no room for philosophy in the courts of princes . " " 1 It is probable that More was haunted , all the time that he was relieving his mind in this refreshing conversation , by a sense of its subtle selfishness ...
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... strength ; it can never be met by argument . Facts alone could disprove it . But what are we saying ? For here is Hythlo- 1 Ideal Commonwealths , p . 86 . day , smiling , quiet , eager to speak . 58 THE ENGLAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS.
... strength ; it can never be met by argument . Facts alone could disprove it . But what are we saying ? For here is Hythlo- 1 Ideal Commonwealths , p . 86 . day , smiling , quiet , eager to speak . 58 THE ENGLAND OF OUR FOREFATHERS.
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... fact by the centuries . More's conception of penology and his plea for religious toleration doubtless appeared to his contemporaries quite as preposterous as his industrial scheme ; yet his construction of crime and its remedies is in ...
... fact by the centuries . More's conception of penology and his plea for religious toleration doubtless appeared to his contemporaries quite as preposterous as his industrial scheme ; yet his construction of crime and its remedies is in ...
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æsthetic aristocracy Arnold beauty become Brobdingnag Carlyle Carlyle's Chartism Christian Church civilization common consciousness cracy culture Culture and Anarchy Daniel Deronda democracy Deronda Dickens dreamer dreams eighteenth century England English equality essay expression Faerie Queene faith feeling fellowship fiction force freedom George Eliot heart hero hope human Hythloday idea imagination impulse industrial inspiration instinct intellectual interest labor Langland liberty literature live Matthew Arnold mediæval ment Middlemarch mighty modern moral More's movement nation natural never noble novel novelists Oxford Movement passion Passus perhaps period Philistines Piers Plowman poem poet political poor poverty present religious Renascence Ruskin Sartor Resartus satire seek sense social ideals socialist society soul spirit struggle sweet Swift Thackeray theories things thought tion to-day Truth turn Unto This Last Utopia Victorian Victorian age vision whole wholly witness words writings
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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.
Página 105 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
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!
Página 104 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children, in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance...
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.
Página 106 - I freely own, and it was indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe, that I calculate my remedy for this one individual kingdom of Ireland and for no other that ever was, is, or I think ever can be upon earth. Therefore let no man talk to me of other...