On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in HistoryMacmillan, 1897 - 417 pagine |
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Pagina 88 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Pagina 10 - There is but one Temple in the Universe,' says the devout Novalis, 'and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body ! ' This sounds much like a mere flourish of rhetoric ; but it is not so.
Pagina 103 - All inmost things, we may say, are melodious; naturally utter themselves in Song. The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Pagina 54 - David's life and history, as written for us in those Psalms of his, I consider to be the truest emblem ever given of a man's moral progress and warfare here below. All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul towards what is good and best. Struggle often baffled, sore...
Pagina 13 - The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning. His word is the wise healing word which all can believe in.
Pagina 103 - All deep things are Song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, Song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Pagina 117 - Dante's painting is not graphic only, brief, true, and of a vividness as of fire in dark night; taken on the wider scale, it is everyway noble, and the outcome of a great soul. Francesca and her lover, what qualities in that ! A thing woven as out of rainbows, on a ground of eternal black.
Pagina 57 - I call that, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. One feels, indeed, as if it were not Hebrew ; such a noble universality, different from noble patriotism or sectarianism, reigns in it. A noble Book ; all men's Book ! It is our first, oldest statement of the never-ending Problem, — man's destiny, and God's ways with him here in this earth.
Pagina 209 - On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion that, of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books!
Pagina 204 - All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.