Leaders in literatureA. & C. Black, 1863 |
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Sayfa 30 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Sayfa 29 - Calista prov'd her conduct nice, And good Simplicius asks of her advice. Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink, But spare your censure; Silia does not drink : All eyes may see from what the change arose, All eyes may see — a pimple on her nose. Papillia, wedded to her am'rous spark, Sighs for the shades — "How charming is a park!
Sayfa 8 - ... let its teaching be but placed in a better order, and instantly it is superseded. Whereas the feeblest works in the literature of power, surviving at all, survive as finished and unalterable amongst men. For instance, the Principia of Sir Isaac Newton was a book militant on earth from the first.
Sayfa 6 - Jacob's ladder from earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth. All the steps of knowledge, from first to last, carry you further on the same plane, but could never raise you one foot above your ancient level of earth: whereas the very first step in power is a flight— is an ascending movement into another element where earth is forgotten.
Sayfa 4 - ... professional or merely personal interest, even though presenting itself in the shape of a book, will not belong to literature. So far the definition is easily narrowed; and it is as easily expanded. For not only is much that takes a station in books not literature, but, inversely, much that really is literature never reaches a station in books. The weekly sermons of Christendom, that vast pulpit literature which acts so extensively upon the popular mind— to warn, to uphold, to renew, to comfort,...
Sayfa 7 - Scriptures speak not of the understanding, but of ' the understanding heart,' — making the heart, ie the great intuitive (or non-discursive) organ, to be the interchangeable formula for man in his highest state of capacity for the infinite. Tragedy, romance, fairy tale, or epopee, all alike restore to man's mind the ideals of justice, of hope, of truth, of mercy, of retribution, which else (left to the support of daily life in its realities) would languish for want of sufficient illustration.
Sayfa 7 - Were it not that human sensibilities are ventilated and continually called out into exercise by the great phenomena of infancy, or of real life as it moves through chance and change, or of literature as it recombines these elements in the mimicries of poetry, romance...
Sayfa 19 - ... the reader in tumultuous sympathy with the poor distracted nun. Exquisitely imagined, among the passages towards the end, is the introduction of a voice speaking to Eloisa from the grave of some sister nun, that, in longforgotten years, once had struggled and suffered like herself, " Once (like herself) that trembled, wept, and prayed, Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid.
Sayfa 327 - Not victory, that o'ershadows him, sees he: No airy and light passion stirs abroad To ruffle or to soothe him; all are quell'd Beneath a mightier, sterner, stress of mind.
Sayfa 7 - ... and dwindle. It is in relation to these great moral capacities of man that the literature of power, as contradistinguished from that of knowledge, lives and has its field of action. It is concerned with what is highest in man ; for the Scriptures themselves never condescended to deal by suggestion or co-operation, with the mere discursive understanding : when speaking of man in his intellectual capacity, the Scriptures speak not of the understanding, but of