The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... 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 from distractions and keep their ...
... 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 from distractions and keep their ...
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... 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.
... 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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... light of high resolve is dimmed , if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men . If on this continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity , we shall have done nothing ; and we shall do as ...
... light of high resolve is dimmed , if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men . If on this continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity , we shall have done nothing ; and we shall do as ...
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... light of the spiritual mysteries which environ man . Happy endings , he recognized , do not inevitably fall to the virtuous nor penalties to the vicious . He divined in life inscrutable laws which operate with impersonal logic , and he ...
... light of the spiritual mysteries which environ man . Happy endings , he recognized , do not inevitably fall to the virtuous nor penalties to the vicious . He divined in life inscrutable laws which operate with impersonal logic , and he ...
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... light sleep , overcome by pleasant sensations and beauty . . . . it brings the greatest joy one can possibly experience . " It is quite apparent here that he has the true poet's delight in the glories of Nature , not always losing his ...
... light sleep , overcome by pleasant sensations and beauty . . . . it brings the greatest joy one can possibly experience . " It is quite apparent here that he has the true poet's delight in the glories of Nature , not always losing his ...
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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.