The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... fact that he owed much to his predecessor , his debt including not only ideas but one of the most famous of his phrases , " sweetness and light . " He was a cool - headed reformer ; Swift , a hot - headed one . The saeva Jonathan Swift 7.
... fact that he owed much to his predecessor , his debt including not only ideas but one of the most famous of his phrases , " sweetness and light . " He was a cool - headed reformer ; Swift , a hot - headed one . The saeva Jonathan Swift 7.
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... fact that he is himself the slayer , utters an unconscious double entendre : - The I pray solemnly that the slayer , who so he be , whether his hidden guilt is lonely or hath partners , evilly , as he is evil , may wear out his unblest ...
... fact that he is himself the slayer , utters an unconscious double entendre : - The I pray solemnly that the slayer , who so he be , whether his hidden guilt is lonely or hath partners , evilly , as he is evil , may wear out his unblest ...
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... fact of the distance between the actual and the ideal . Humanity itself seems to assume a disguise ; love , patriotism , paternal care , filial duty mask in other forms beguiling men " to the very heart of loss " . The more closely ...
... fact of the distance between the actual and the ideal . Humanity itself seems to assume a disguise ; love , patriotism , paternal care , filial duty mask in other forms beguiling men " to the very heart of loss " . The more closely ...
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... fact that men have foolishly trusted For- tune although they know her ways . In the Agamemnon of Seneca , probably known to Shakespeare , the hero , whose fate has already been forecast by his wife , says upon his arrival at his palace ...
... fact that men have foolishly trusted For- tune although they know her ways . In the Agamemnon of Seneca , probably known to Shakespeare , the hero , whose fate has already been forecast by his wife , says upon his arrival at his palace ...
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... antithesis . His very nature was a perception of the fact that appearances are de- ceitful : - That one may smile , and smile , and be a villain ! He loved above all things to present an opposition , 22 The Sewanee Review.
... antithesis . His very nature was a perception of the fact that appearances are de- ceitful : - That one may smile , and smile , and be a villain ! He loved above all things to present an opposition , 22 The Sewanee Review.
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Page 343 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Page 456 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 26 - They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...
Page 186 - With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be held in reverence ; they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Page 458 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what " Blackwood" or the "Quarterly" could possibly inflict : and also when I feel I am right, no external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.
Page 456 - The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth.
Page 132 - Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them selfdeceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly...
Page 21 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 431 - What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that — like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the hills and forests of Judaea — rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the...
Page 181 - What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns.