Lectures on the History of LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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Page 239 - The Science of History — Times of Erasmus and Luther — The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character — The Philosophy of Catholicism — A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties — Criticism and the Gospel History— The Book of Job— Spinoza— The...
Page 225 - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
Page 240 - Annals of an English Abbey — Revival of Romanism — Sea Studies — Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic — Lucian — Diyus Caesar — On the Uses of a Landed Gentry — Party Politics — Leaves from a South African Journal. VOL. IV. The Oxford Counter — Reformation — Life and Times of Thomas Becket — Origen and Celsus— A Cagliostro of the Second Century — Cheneys and the House of Russell — A Siding at a Railway Station.
Page 180 - I began with Hume and Diderot, and as long as I was with them I ran at atheism, at blackness, at materialism of all kinds. If I read Kant I arrived at precisely opposite conclusions, that all the world was spirit, namely, that there was nothing material at all anywhere ; and the result was what I have stated, that I resolved for my part on having nothing more to do with metaphysics at all.
Page 194 - From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equalling the Iliad in length and completeness, nay, if we can forget for a moment all that we in our youth learned to call beautiful, of a beauty essentially similar.
Page 178 - ... than happiness. Love of happiness is but a kind of hunger at the best, a craving because I have not enough of sweet provision in this world. If I am asked what that higher thing is, I cannot at once make answer, I am afraid of causing mistake.
Page 69 - Accordingly, I think that when all records of Catholicism shall have passed away ; when the Vatican shall have crumbled into dust, and St. Peter's and Strasburg Minster be no more ; for thousands of years to come Catholicism will survive in this sublime relic of antiquity ! In seeking the character of Dante's poem, we shall admire first that grand, natural, moral depth, that nobleness of heart, that grandeur of soul, which distinguish him. Great in all directions, in his wrath, his scorn, his pity....
Page 190 - Now as for the carrying off of women, it is the deed, they say, of a rogue; but to make a stir about such as are carried off argues a man a fool. Men of sense care nothing for such women, since it is plain that without their own consent they would never be forced away.
Page 151 - Addison was a mere lay preacher completely bound up in formalism, but he did get to say many a true thing in his generation." Steele had infinitely more naivete, but he subordinated himself to Addison. " It is a cold vote in Addison's favour that one gives. By far the greatest man of that time, I think, was Jonathan Swift, Dean Swift, a man entirely deprived of his natural nourishment, but of great robustness, of genuine Saxon mind, not without a feeling of reverence, though from circumstances it...
Page 209 - ... of the sensible to the ideal, that aspiration for somewhat better and less fleeting than earthly things, to which his inmost soul responded. Like all genuine worshippers of the great Florentine Poet, he rated the " Inferno " below the two later portions of the "Divina Commedia;" there was nothing even to revolt his taste, but rather much to attract it, in the scholastic theology and mystic visions of the