Parables of Fiction: A Memorial Discourse on Charles DickensTrübner & Company, 1870 - 16 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired apologue artistic civilization battle-axe bear beauty bigotry breath character charity Charlemagne Charles Dickens Christendom Christian Church creed critic degrade diffuse Discourse ON CHARLES divine dogmas Dombey dread ecclesiastical eminent encroaching English-speaking Father genius geon hate heart heaven honour the vocation human eyes."-TENNYSON humour ideal imagination influence instrument that drips intense interests invention Jesus Christ kind kingdom of heaven liberty literary Little Nell living look mankind Martineau Memorial Discourse mightier millions misery moral and religious multitude nature ness never noble novelette novelist novels odious PARABLES OF FICTION passion peace peaceful action preach preacher pulpit pure refinement religion reverence rich satirical scenes sensi sensibilities sentiment shams social soldier soul spake spirit stylus superiority sword sympathy Teacher theology things thoughts and feelings thousand tion tool touch true truth unnatural unto virtue warrior weapons weary whole words writings written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 7 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition...
Seite 41 - Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale; But half my life I leave behind : Methinks my friend is richly shrined; But I shall pass; my work will fail.
Seite 7 - Then one deep love doth supersede All other, when her ardent gaze Roves from the living brother's face, And rests upon the Life indeed. All subtle thought, all curious fears, Borne down by gladness so complete, She bows, she bathes the Saviour's feet With costly spikenard and with tears. Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, Whose loves in higher love endure ; What souls possess themselves so pure, Or is there blessedness like theirs...
Seite 10 - ... warrior; where he points the thunderbolt breaks, and there an end; the disturbed forces subside again into their poise — perhaps into a higher and purer poise. But the lines traced by the pen of the man of genius are symbols which hold their potency forever, still discharging it unexhausted into the mind of every fresh observer. Alexander, when asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, " Would you rather be the victor in the Olympic games, or the herald who proclaims him ?"...
Seite 34 - I have always striven in my writings to express veneration for the life and lessons of our Saviour ; because I feel it ; and because I rewrote that history for my children — every one of whom knew it from having it repeated to them, long before they could read, and almost as soon as they could speak. But I have never made proclamation of this from the house-tops.
Seite 7 - I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there.