On Heroes and Hero-worship and the Heroic in HistoryWard, Lock & Company, 1900 - 335 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Allegory altogether answer Arab beautiful become believe better Books Burns Carlyle century Christian Cromwell Cromwell's Dante Dante's darkness dead death deep divine earnest Earth Elizabethan Era England Euphuisms fact faculty faith false falsehood fancy feel forever French Revolution genuine God's godlike Goethe heart Heaven Hero Hero-worship heroic Heroism human Hymir Idolatry infinite insincere intellect Johnson Jötuns kind King Knox Koreish LECTURE 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 Puritanism quackeries reality Reformation Religion reverence rude Samuel Johnson Scandinavian Scepticism seems Shakspeare shews silent sincere Skalds Song sort soul speak speech spiritual strange struggle Theocracy thing Thomas Carlyle Thor thought true truth Universe utter valour victory vulpine whatsoever whole wild withal words worship Wuotan
Popular passages
Page 94 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 259 - 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.
Page 119 - ... and more in that awful other world. Naturally his thoughts brooded on that, as on the one fact important for him. Bodied or bodiless, it is the one fact important for all men : but to Dante, in that age, it was bodied in fixed certainty of scientific shape ; he no more doubted of that...
Page 221 - Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, — very momentous to us in these times.
Page 141 - 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.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 6 - 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.
Page 144 - 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...
Page 30 - So, with boundless gratitude, would the rude Norse heart feel. Has he not solved for them the sphinx-enigma of this Universe ; given assurance to them of their own destiny there? By him they know now what they have to do here, what to look for hereafter. Existence has become articulate, melodious by him ; he first has made Life alive! — We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology : Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was a man among men. His view of the Universe...
Page 93 - It is a calumny on men to say that they are roused to heroic action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, — sugar-plums of any kind, in this world or the next ! In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his " honor of a soldier," different from drillregulations and the shilling a day.