On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and AdditionsD. Appleton & Company, 1841 - 13 sivua |
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Allegory altogether answer Arab beautiful believe better Books Burns century Christian confused Cromwell Dante Dante's darkness dead death deep divine earnest Earth England Euphuisms fact faculty Faith false falsehood fancy feel Fichte forever Formulas French Revolution genuine God's godlike Goethe hearsays heart Heaven Hero Hero-worship heroic human Hymir hypochondria Idolatry infinite insincere intellect Jötuns kind King Knox Koran Koreish live look Luther Mahomet man's manner mean misery Napoleon nation Nature never noble Norse Odin old Norse once Paganism Parliament perhaps Poet poor preaching Priest Prophet Protestantism Puritans quackery racter reality religion reverence rude Samuel Johnson Scandinavian Scepticism seems semblance Shakspeare shew silent sincere Skalds soever Song sort soul speak speech spiritual strange struggle Theocracy thing Thor thought tion true truth Universe utterance valour victory vulpine whatsoever whole wild withal words worship Wuotan
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Sivu 115 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Sivu 237 - Scottish man, now after three hundred years, should have to plead like a culprit before the world; intrinsically for having been, in such way as it was then possible to be, the bravest of all Scotchmen! Had he been a poor Half-and-half, he could have crouched into the corner, like so many others ; Scotland had not been delivered ; and Knox had been without blame. He is the one Scotchman to whom, of all others, his country and the world owe a debt.
Sivu 314 - Duchesses to dinner; the cynosure of all eyes ! Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Sivu 152 - And how much of morality is in the kind of insight -we get of anything ; ' the eye seeing in all things what it brought with it the faculty of seeing' ! To the mean .eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face there lies more than Raphael will take-away with him.
Sivu 173 - To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathise with it : that is, be virtuously related to it.
Sivu 74 - This Mahomet, then, we will in no wise consider as an Inanity and Theatricality, a poor conscious ambitious schemer; we cannot conceive him so. The rude message he delivered was a real one withal; an earnest confused voice from the unknown Deep. The man's words were not false, nor his workings here below; no Inanity and Simulacrum; a fiery mass of Life cast-up from the great bosom of Nature herself.
Sivu 139 - To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless ; — significant of the whole history of Dante ! I think it is the mournfullest face that ever was painted from reality ; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting face.
Sivu 1 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Sivu 175 - Shakspeare greater than Dante, in that he fought truly, and did conquer. Doubt it not, he had his own sorrows: those Sonnets of his will even testify expressly in what deep waters he had waded, and swum struggling for his life; —as what man like him ever failed to have to do? It seems to me a heedless notion, our common one, that...
Sivu 4 - The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were parents of their thoughts: it was the unseen and spiritual in them that determined the outward and actual; — their religion, as I say, was the great fact about them.