On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History ...Chapman & Hall, 1897 - 255 pages |
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... utterances thrown out isolated , unexplained , has your tolerance been put to the trial . Tolerance , patient candour , all - hoping favour and kindness , which I will not speak of at present . The accomplished and distinguished , the ...
... utterances thrown out isolated , unexplained , has your tolerance been put to the trial . Tolerance , patient candour , all - hoping favour and kindness , which I will not speak of at present . The accomplished and distinguished , the ...
Page 46
... utterances , are they not a kind of revelation ' ; - what we must call such for want of other name ? It is from the heart of the world that he comes ; he is portion of the primal reality of things . God has made many revelations : but ...
... utterances , are they not a kind of revelation ' ; - what we must call such for want of other name ? It is from the heart of the world that he comes ; he is portion of the primal reality of things . God has made many revelations : but ...
Page 66
... utterances of a soul in that mood , coloured by the various vicissitudes of three - and - twenty years ; now well uttered , now worse : this is the Koran . For we are to consider Mahomet , through these three- and - twenty years , as ...
... utterances of a soul in that mood , coloured by the various vicissitudes of three - and - twenty years ; now well uttered , now worse : this is the Koran . For we are to consider Mahomet , through these three- and - twenty years , as ...
Page 83
... utterances of it , in the whole conception of it , then it will be poetical ; if not , not . - Musical : how much lies in that ! A musical thought is one spoken by a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of the thing ; detected ...
... utterances of it , in the whole conception of it , then it will be poetical ; if not , not . - Musical : how much lies in that ! A musical thought is one spoken by a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of the thing ; detected ...
Page 95
... utterances of affec- tion , perhaps the very purest , that ever came out of a human soul . For the intense Dante is intense in all things ; he has got into the essence of all . His intellectual insight as painter , on occasion too as ...
... utterances of affec- tion , perhaps the very purest , that ever came out of a human soul . For the intense Dante is intense in all things ; he has got into the essence of all . His intellectual insight as painter , on occasion too as ...
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