Literature in a Changing AgeMacmillan, 1920 - 318 pagine |
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Pagina 217 - The heroines of comedy are like -(— women of the world, not necessarily heartless frorn^being clear-sighted; they seem so to ttt the sentimentally reared, only for the reason that they use their wits, and are not wandering vessels crying for a captain or a pilot. Comedy is an exhibition of their battle with men, and that of men with them...
Pagina 109 - ... he could not speak, for his strength was fast ebbing. They stood round him still and silent ; even the wife checked her sobs, though her heart was like to break. She held her child to her breast, to try and keep him quiet. Their eyes were all fixed on the yet living one, whose moments of life were passing so rapidly away. At length he brought (with jerking, convulsive effort) his two hands into the attitude of prayer. They saw his lips move, and bent to catch the words, which came in gasps, and...
Pagina 185 - What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astounding ? The question is this — Is man an ape or an angel ? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.
Pagina 133 - To this English People in World-History, there have been, shall I prophesy, Two grand tasks assigned ? Huge-looming through the dim tumult of the always incommensurable Present Time, outlines of two tasks disclose themselves : the grand Industrial task of conquering some half or more of this Terraqueous Planet for the use of man...
Pagina 123 - Vach, you have had a narrow time right through life and you have a narrow place in death. But never mind, old friend; I can see a day dawning for you when you will rise out of your narrow bed and call out to all those big people — 'Elbow room for the poor.
Pagina 65 - It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Pagina 104 - And fill'd with tax-bought wine. Thus, twelve rats starve while three rats thrive, (Like you on mine and me,) When fifteen rats are caged alive, With food for nine and three. Haste...
Pagina 133 - Tnffy<itrial tasl^ of conquering some half or more of this Terraqueous Planet for the use of man ; then secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done.
Pagina 21 - I have now settled my outline of operations — a three shilling or half-crown volume every month, which must and shall sell, not by thousands or tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands — ay, by millions ! Twelve volumes in the year, a halfpenny of profit upon every copy of which will make me richer than the possession of all the copyrights of all the quartos that ever were, or will be, hot-pressed!
Pagina 249 - The truth is that each part of every vapour-engine is bred by its own special breeders, whose function it is to breed that part, and that only, while the combination of the parts into a whole forms another department of the mechanical reproductive system, which is at present exceedingly complex and difficult to see in its entirety. " Complex now, but how much simpler and more intelligibly organized may it not become in another hundred thousand years?