Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 oldal |
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... genius has so often found , that he could not adjust himself to the professional pace and dogmatic harness which were ready for him at the close of his college course , he discovered , on the threshold of manhood , that literature was ...
... genius has so often found , that he could not adjust himself to the professional pace and dogmatic harness which were ready for him at the close of his college course , he discovered , on the threshold of manhood , that literature was ...
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... genius this is the most essential constituent ; and life in any shape has sorrows enough for hearts so formed . The em- ployments of literature sharpen this natural tendency ; the vexations that accompany them frequently exasperate it ...
... genius this is the most essential constituent ; and life in any shape has sorrows enough for hearts so formed . The em- ployments of literature sharpen this natural tendency ; the vexations that accompany them frequently exasperate it ...
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... genius has , in fact , its bright side as well as its dark . And if it is distressing to survey the misery , and , what is worse , the debasement , of so many gifted men , it is doubly cheering on the other hand to reflect on the few ...
... genius has , in fact , its bright side as well as its dark . And if it is distressing to survey the misery , and , what is worse , the debasement , of so many gifted men , it is doubly cheering on the other hand to reflect on the few ...
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... genius fit for the learned professions . He took to reading with earnest delight , laying out his coppers on stall - literature . That sense of mystery in what , to common observation , are the simplest and most unsug- gestive things ...
... genius fit for the learned professions . He took to reading with earnest delight , laying out his coppers on stall - literature . That sense of mystery in what , to common observation , are the simplest and most unsug- gestive things ...
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... uncredited ; at your peril , do not try believing that . " He now , for some years , was a schoolmaster , proving to be a stern disciplinarian ; but so strong a genius for literature could not fail to assert itself , and his.
... uncredited ; at your peril , do not try believing that . " He now , for some years , was a schoolmaster , proving to be a stern disciplinarian ; but so strong a genius for literature could not fail to assert itself , and his.
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296. oldal - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
340. oldal - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
286. oldal - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
303. oldal - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
296. oldal - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
286. oldal - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
303. oldal - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
145. oldal - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
284. oldal - Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
222. oldal - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.