Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare, Zväzok 21848 |
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Strana 32 - ... for the education of the body of the people. When you degrade the gentry into machines for accumulation and votaries of luxury, and make them alternately misers and spendthrifts, you do almost all that is possible for destroying the best hopes of England ; you do all that man can do to prevent the existence of men, who, with that freedom from manual labour, which is necessary for the highest cultivation of the faculties, would also have those moderate and self-denying habits, which are indispensable...
Strana 180 - MONTANUS. EDUCATION. The striving of modern fashionable education is to make the character impressive ; while the result of good education, though not the aim, would be to make it expressive. There is a tendency in modern education to cover the fingers with rings, and, at the same time, to cut the sinews at the wrist. The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches every thing else, and not that.
Strana 110 - Every man employs, for t. large part of every day, a mechanism far more wonderful than the engine of Watt or Babbage: and an additional wonder is, that few know they use so sublime an instrument, though it is worked by distinct acts of their own thought and will. What is it? Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, are knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. How vast is our selfglorification for the art of writing!
Strana 119 - To found an argument for the value of Christianity on external evidence, and not on the condition of man and the pure idea of God, is to hold up a candle before our eyes that we may better see the stars.
Strana 84 - The road traverses a broad terrace at a considerable height above the sea, but very much lower than a range of cliffs which runs behind it. You therefore have on one hand, rising to a great elevation, a rugged wall of sandstone, and on the other a broken surface, in many parts half a mile wide, at the foot of which the sea dashes. This has been produced by the fall of...
Strana 26 - ... unostentatious subsistence, is railed at, as one knowing nothing of the true objects of existence, a useless and contemptible being, to be treated with haughtiness by every gambler in the funds, by every man whose soul is put out at compound interest, whose very being is garnered in a moneychest, by every owner of hereditary acres, and oracle of hereditary wisdom. To succeed in life is to make a large fortune, without doing any thing which would send a man to prison. To be unsuccessful is not...
Strana 125 - Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality, is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent, than that which we sacrifice to it.
Strana 106 - When the meaning is too big for the words, the expression is quaint. When the words are too big for the meaning, it is bombastic. The one is pleasing, as an imperfection of growth ; the other unpleasing, as that of decay. The one must be looked for in a fresh and advancing literature; the other infects a literature past its prime, when words have become a trade, and are valued apart from thoughts. The talk of children is often quaint ; that of worn-out men of the world often bombastic, where the...
Strana 91 - It looked very like my notion of a distant volcano seen in a dark night. July 11.— Once more, thou darkly rolling main, I bid thy lonely strength adieu; And sorrowing leave thee once again, Familiar long, yet ever new! And while, thou changeless, boundless sea, I quit thy solitary shore. I sigh to turn away from thee, And think I ne'er may greet thee more. Thy many voices, which are one, The varying garbs that robe thy might, Thy dazzling hues at set of sun, Thy deeper loveliness by night; The...
Strana 53 - Keats, whose memory they persevered only a few months back in spitting upon, was, as every one knows who has read him, among the most intense and delightful English poets of our day. But a certain portion of dirt and slander seems necessary in England to make the public endure any degree of philosophy, even in criticism ; and it will be charitable to refer to the same policy the swinish cleverness of the Nodes Ambrosiante.