The afternoon lectures on English literature [afterw. on literature and art] delivered in the theatre of the Museum of industry, Dublin |
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... character . I do not mean to say merely that in this age of imperfect civilization the rights of property were not fully recognized : this would have been a defect of the Homeric age , and not of the people . We find in Homer piracy ...
... character . I do not mean to say merely that in this age of imperfect civilization the rights of property were not fully recognized : this would have been a defect of the Homeric age , and not of the people . We find in Homer piracy ...
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... character , because he has not the physical power of Achilles or the intellect of Ulysses ; and this latter , Homer's greatest human hero , is above his fel- lows " in stratagem and in the use of the oath . " The words used to be ...
... character , because he has not the physical power of Achilles or the intellect of Ulysses ; and this latter , Homer's greatest human hero , is above his fel- lows " in stratagem and in the use of the oath . " The words used to be ...
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... characters of most of the great men of the day strike us as wanting in amiability , and the whole temper of the literature as hard and selfish . I do not , of course , include the great father of history , Herodotus , who was educated ...
... characters of most of the great men of the day strike us as wanting in amiability , and the whole temper of the literature as hard and selfish . I do not , of course , include the great father of history , Herodotus , who was educated ...
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... characters of the day . I am rather compelled to show you how all the weaker elements in society were despised and neglected . Women , slaves , even the older men found little con- sideration from the feverish ambition which absorbed ...
... characters of the day . I am rather compelled to show you how all the weaker elements in society were despised and neglected . Women , slaves , even the older men found little con- sideration from the feverish ambition which absorbed ...
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... character disappeared . Intellectual power in women was distinctly associated with moral depra- vity , so that excessive ignorance and stupidity was considered the only guarantee of virtue . * The qua- lifications for society became ...
... character disappeared . Intellectual power in women was distinctly associated with moral depra- vity , so that excessive ignorance and stupidity was considered the only guarantee of virtue . * The qua- lifications for society became ...
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Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Էջ 294 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Էջ 138 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Էջ 152 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Էջ 297 - There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart...
Էջ 38 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Էջ 302 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Էջ 160 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Էջ 166 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Էջ 159 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.