The Adventure of LivingG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 - 500 pages |
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Page i - We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of Nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.
Page 217 - knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. The following was his short synopsis of the story: How the Count saw a city in the sky and men in harness issuing thereout—Of the encampment of the host of the moonsmen—Of how the battle was
Page 250 - of a general angelic reservoir and sometimes in single samples, but definite personalities. His was only a fierce and violent way of saying what Tennyson said so exquisitely in the immortal lines: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside, And I shall know
Page 78 - in the way of description: Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised. I once amused myself by getting together a large number of descriptions of "isolement," and found that, though they may differ considerably, they have in common the characteristics enumerated by the Ode. The first thing to be noted about the sense of
Page 108 - a tear for those who love me, And a smile for those who hate, And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
Page 378 - grow red with rage when he hears too beastly conduct of Public Works Department." Macaulay's splendid eulogy of Hampden may, with very little alteration, be applied to Lord Cromer. "The sobriety, the self-command, the perfect soundness of judgment, the perfect rectitude of intention," were as truly the qualities of the Ruler and regenerator of Egypt as they were of the great statesman of the
Page 30 - period described as that to which "the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." The village people were poor, but yet not dependent; people not, perhaps, very enterprising, and yet with a culture of their own; and people, above all, with natural dignity and good manners shown to those they like and respect, though often with a
Page vi - Ajax. The world may like, for all I care, The gentler voice, the cooler head, That bows a rival to despair, And cheaply compliments the dead. That smiles at all that's coarse and rash, Yet wins the trophies of the fight, Unscathed in honour's wreck and crash, Heartless, but always in the right.
Page 402 - high desert, His hand unstained, his uncorrupted heart, His comprehensive head! all interests weigh'd, All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd? He thanks you
Page vi - Thanked, and self-pleased: ay, let him wear What to that noble breast was due; And I, dear passionate Teucer, dare Go through the homeless world with you.