The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art: Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Science, & S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in the Years 1867 & 1868 |
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... feelings at all so much as the Germans in proportion to their other refinement , surely the most perfect civilization of the ancient world - perhaps of any period of the world , cannot have failed to develop some of the more subtle and ...
... feelings at all so much as the Germans in proportion to their other refinement , surely the most perfect civilization of the ancient world - perhaps of any period of the world , cannot have failed to develop some of the more subtle and ...
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... feeling of honour was , so to speak , an external or foreign basis , and not founded upon the dignity with which a man feels bound to treat his own nature . Nor were the claims of others upon him the claims of human nature as such , but ...
... feeling of honour was , so to speak , an external or foreign basis , and not founded upon the dignity with which a man feels bound to treat his own nature . Nor were the claims of others upon him the claims of human nature as such , but ...
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... feeling in the way in which Ulysses rejects her offer , and says that he will find out these things for himself . * Time forbids my quoting and illustrating the sub- ject with anecdotes as I should wish , but there is one remarkable ...
... feeling in the way in which Ulysses rejects her offer , and says that he will find out these things for himself . * Time forbids my quoting and illustrating the sub- ject with anecdotes as I should wish , but there is one remarkable ...
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... feelings of others , to which I next invite your attention . However rude these heroes may have been to their inferiors , among themselves they had a very strict code of gentlemanly conduct . At these very games , from which I have just ...
... feelings of others , to which I next invite your attention . However rude these heroes may have been to their inferiors , among themselves they had a very strict code of gentlemanly conduct . At these very games , from which I have just ...
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... feelings of equals , but not for those of inferiors , and we justly regard it as the highest test of refinement , to find in the relations of men toward the lower classes and the weaker sex , that delicacy and respect , which they ...
... feelings of equals , but not for those of inferiors , and we justly regard it as the highest test of refinement , to find in the relations of men toward the lower classes and the weaker sex , that delicacy and respect , which they ...
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Page 164 - 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.
Page 164 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 142 - 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...
Page 156 - 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!
Page 42 - 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
Page 308 - 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.
Page 164 - 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.
Page 163 - 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.
Page 118 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 141 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart ; He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.