The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... human spirit struggles toward the light ; and the adoptions and rejections of its agents by the multitude are never wholly blind and capri- cious , but have a meaning . And the Liberals of the future are those who preserve themselves ...
... human spirit struggles toward the light ; and the adoptions and rejections of its agents by the multitude are never wholly blind and capri- cious , but have a meaning . And the Liberals of the future are those who preserve themselves ...
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... human betterment with an intense hatred of " that animal called man . " There is no paradox in this ; for , as he himself admitted , he heartily loved individuals ; and the list of people whom he aided in various ways would be long . It ...
... human betterment with an intense hatred of " that animal called man . " There is no paradox in this ; for , as he himself admitted , he heartily loved individuals ; and the list of people whom he aided in various ways would be long . It ...
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... essentially undemocratic Carlyle , in vague dreams of democracy and human brotherhood and exclaiming " Venerable to me is the horny hand , " he became a democrat and a brother - a more difficult operation , as Jonathan Swift 3.
... essentially undemocratic Carlyle , in vague dreams of democracy and human brotherhood and exclaiming " Venerable to me is the horny hand , " he became a democrat and a brother - a more difficult operation , as Jonathan Swift 3.
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... humanity . Careless readers have failed to make the dis- tinction ; and it must be confessed that Swift has perhaps not marked it out with sufficient clearness . The truth nevertheless is that the Houyhnhnms represent a type higher than ...
... humanity . Careless readers have failed to make the dis- tinction ; and it must be confessed that Swift has perhaps not marked it out with sufficient clearness . The truth nevertheless is that the Houyhnhnms represent a type higher than ...
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... human race rather than individuals , never hesitated to use the bludgeon ; and his tremendous force of personality coupled with simplicity of style often gave permanence to pamphlets which would otherwise have been forgotten in a year ...
... human race rather than individuals , never hesitated to use the bludgeon ; and his tremendous force of personality coupled with simplicity of style often gave permanence to pamphlets which would otherwise have been forgotten in a year ...
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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.