The Sewanee Review, Volume 34University of the South, 1926 |
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... whole race is the object of their affection . They need no government because they have attained self - dis- cipline . " Power , government , war , law , punishment , and a thousand other things had no terms wherein that language could ...
... whole race is the object of their affection . They need no government because they have attained self - dis- cipline . " Power , government , war , law , punishment , and a thousand other things had no terms wherein that language could ...
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... whole true story to the daughter of Icarius , heedful Penelope , for well I know about Odysseus . We have borne the self - same sorrows . Here the speaker is consciously playing upon truth , knowing that what he says in one sense will ...
... whole true story to the daughter of Icarius , heedful Penelope , for well I know about Odysseus . We have borne the self - same sorrows . Here the speaker is consciously playing upon truth , knowing that what he says in one sense will ...
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... whole ; above ail , we have been abundantly supplied with sweeping generalizations about the Victorian Age , which are too often as cock - sure as they are un- sound . One result of all this effort has been the creation of a composite ...
... whole ; above ail , we have been abundantly supplied with sweeping generalizations about the Victorian Age , which are too often as cock - sure as they are un- sound . One result of all this effort has been the creation of a composite ...
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... whole issue , we must be filled with humility and a whole- some fear of mistaking a part for the whole . Before announc- ing pontifically that the Victorians were " hypocrites " , or " shallow thinkers " , or " prudes " , or " afraid to ...
... whole issue , we must be filled with humility and a whole- some fear of mistaking a part for the whole . Before announc- ing pontifically that the Victorians were " hypocrites " , or " shallow thinkers " , or " prudes " , or " afraid to ...
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... for strength , but whatever their shortcogs they do not justify us in asserting that sloppy sentiment is a characteristic of the whole Victorian Age . But suppose we say frankly that when we attack the 34 The Sewanee Review.
... for strength , but whatever their shortcogs they do not justify us in asserting that sloppy sentiment is a characteristic of the whole Victorian Age . But suppose we say frankly that when we attack the 34 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.