English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of WritingFrederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page 4
... friend suggested , 30 " But these impulses may be from below , not from above . " I replied , " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am 35 the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . " No law can be sacred to me but ...
... friend suggested , 30 " But these impulses may be from below , not from above . " I replied , " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am 35 the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . " No law can be sacred to me but ...
Page 8
... friend's parlor . If this aversation 5 had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , disguise no ...
... friend's parlor . If this aversation 5 had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , disguise no ...
Page 24
... friend once recommended me to do , continually ; whereas I have a bad trick of always numbering the thorns in my fingers and not the bones in them ) . And for best and truest beginning of all blessings , I had 30 been taught the perfect ...
... friend once recommended me to do , continually ; whereas I have a bad trick of always numbering the thorns in my fingers and not the bones in them ) . And for best and truest beginning of all blessings , I had 30 been taught the perfect ...
Page 30
... friends , I had at that time none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible . It was , however , abundantly intelligible to myself ; and the more I dwelt upon it , the more hopeless it appeared . 20 My course of study ...
... friends , I had at that time none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible . It was , however , abundantly intelligible to myself ; and the more I dwelt upon it , the more hopeless it appeared . 20 My course of study ...
Page 40
... friends , whom distance cannot diminish , figuring up in the air ( so they appear to our optics ) , yet on terra firma still - for so we must in courtesy interpret that speck of deeper blue , which the decorous artist , to prevent ...
... friends , whom distance cannot diminish , figuring up in the air ( so they appear to our optics ) , yet on terra firma still - for so we must in courtesy interpret that speck of deeper blue , which the decorous artist , to prevent ...
Other editions - View all
English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ... Various Limited preview - 2022 |
Common terms and phrases
action Alps animals association beauty become better called carbonic acid cause character Charles Lamb Clytemnestra common culture dust effect English experience expression eyes fact feel force friends give glacier Greek habit hand Heidegger Herbert Spencer Huxley ideal ideas imagination instinct intellect kind knowledge less light literature living look loyal loyalty mankind manners Markheim matter means Medbourne mental power merely mind modern Mont Blanc moral mountain nature never object once ourselves Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps persons petrifaction philosophy Plato pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pond Professor Professor Huxley progress protoplasm reading seems sense Shakespeare social society soul speak spirit stoicism T. H. Huxley talk things thought tion true truth University virtue whole William Hazlitt words ΙΟ
Popular passages
Page 50 - ... whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of...
Page 8 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 50 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 1 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 2 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 4 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 6 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 33 - ... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 260 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask: Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 48 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.