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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... least its prevalence amongst us , may be due wholly to Germanic sentiment , deepened and en- nobled by Christianity . The Homeric chief would not commit acts of cowardice or perjury , because he was ashamed of his family and friends ...
... least its prevalence amongst us , may be due wholly to Germanic sentiment , deepened and en- nobled by Christianity . The Homeric chief would not commit acts of cowardice or perjury , because he was ashamed of his family and friends ...
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... least one mention of an hospital , † and by the fact , that charities must have been the private concern of the Athenian clans . But even were the literature of the day completely preserved to us , there might be no further mention of ...
... least one mention of an hospital , † and by the fact , that charities must have been the private concern of the Athenian clans . But even were the literature of the day completely preserved to us , there might be no further mention of ...
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... least , we might have expected that the portraits drawn with such consummate skill by Homer would have been easily transferred to the Athenian stage . But to our astonishment we find the higher social feelings towards women so weak ...
... least , we might have expected that the portraits drawn with such consummate skill by Homer would have been easily transferred to the Athenian stage . But to our astonishment we find the higher social feelings towards women so weak ...
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... least . But did you not marry her very young , a mere child , who had seen and heard as little as she possibly could ? Certainly . Then would it not be far stranger if she knew what she should say and do than if she did not ? " And then ...
... least . But did you not marry her very young , a mere child , who had seen and heard as little as she possibly could ? Certainly . Then would it not be far stranger if she knew what she should say and do than if she did not ? " And then ...
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... least in theory , the wisdom and happiness of every sphere of life ; but in practice he has learned that selfish and violent passions rend and distort the mind , and ruin even the small amount of comfort which is granted us by chance or ...
... least in theory , the wisdom and happiness of every sphere of life ; but in practice he has learned that selfish and violent passions rend and distort the mind , and ruin even the small amount of comfort which is granted us by chance or ...
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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.