The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton, Volumen11891 |
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Página viii
... criticism of himself which could not gain a hearing if published separately , in such intimate union with the text that it cannot be escaped ; and nothing is more annoying to a reader than to be incessantly teased with the information ...
... criticism of himself which could not gain a hearing if published separately , in such intimate union with the text that it cannot be escaped ; and nothing is more annoying to a reader than to be incessantly teased with the information ...
Página ix
... criticism would grossly distort the perspective both of Bagehot and myself , and stultify both my admiration and my ... critic's business to be thankful . But of course it is only true to a petty degree : a few debatable points do not ...
... criticism would grossly distort the perspective both of Bagehot and myself , and stultify both my admiration and my ... critic's business to be thankful . But of course it is only true to a petty degree : a few debatable points do not ...
Página xiii
... judgment is most severe . Besides , he confined his criticisms mainly to positive insti- tutions , which can be modified at will ; and did little carping at - social facts , which is scarcely more than a EDITOR'S PREFACE . xiii.
... judgment is most severe . Besides , he confined his criticisms mainly to positive insti- tutions , which can be modified at will ; and did little carping at - social facts , which is scarcely more than a EDITOR'S PREFACE . xiii.
Página xv
... criticisms are mainly of the highest value and justice , and the severest ones are the truest . The dangers and degradations and follies , the scanting of decent political thought and the outlawry of independent political think- ers ...
... criticisms are mainly of the highest value and justice , and the severest ones are the truest . The dangers and degradations and follies , the scanting of decent political thought and the outlawry of independent political think- ers ...
Página xix
... criticism is often of the highest value . Yet I do not rate them his best . They have the merit and the defect of a consistent purpose , a central theory which the details are mar- shaled to support . The merit is , that it makes them ...
... criticism is often of the highest value . Yet I do not rate them his best . They have the merit and the defect of a consistent purpose , a central theory which the details are mar- shaled to support . The merit is , that it makes them ...
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Página 121 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Página 120 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Página 120 - I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Página 248 - And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking:
Página 127 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Página 77 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 217 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 313 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 130 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 106 - He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...