The Quarterly Review, Band 242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1924 |
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Seite 354 - O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames ; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims...
Seite 258 - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel— it is, before all, to make you see.
Seite 47 - Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality.
Seite 208 - Impossible — however after supper when we were all madder than ever with the pulling of crackers, the drinking of champagne, and the making of speeches ; a universal country dance was proposed — and Forster seizing me round the waist, whirled me into the thick of it, and made me dance ! ! like a person in the tread-mill who must move forward or be crushed to death ! Once I cried out " oh for the love of Heaven let me go ! you are going to dash my brains out against the folding doors...
Seite 42 - Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man hath seen the light, this is next best by far, that with all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come.
Seite 124 - ... why, my friend, should Protagoras be preferred to the place of wisdom and instruction, and deserve to be well paid, and we poor ignoramuses have to go to him, if each one is the measure of his own wisdom? Must he not be talking 'ad captandum
Seite 215 - Then everything includes itself in power : Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make, perforce, a universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Seite 246 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Seite 44 - ... of what is to come ; but if they fail, they at once conceive new hopes and so fill up the void. With them alone to hope is to have, for they lose not a moment in the execution of an idea. This is the lifelong task, full of danger and toil, which they are always imposing upon themselves.
Seite 208 - Dickens and Forster above all exerted themselves till the perspiration was pouring down and they seemed drunk with their efforts ! Only think of that excellent Dickens playing the conjuror for one whole hour — the best conjuror I ever saw — (and I have paid money to see several) — and Forster acting as his servant.