Ireland and the Irish. The worth of liberty. True manhood. The pulpit. Patriotism. Economics. Music. The young musician. A day in Springfield. Chatterton. Carlyle. Savage and DermodyTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Abbot affections amidst Anglo-Saxon beauty blessed Carlyle Celt character Chartist Chatterton Christian church civilization conscience Corn Laws dark death desire despair duty dwelling earth eloquence England evil evinced existence faith fancy fear feel force free soul freedom genius give Glasgow glory grave Greenock habit heart heaven highest hope human ical idea imagination immortal individual instinct intellect Inverary Ireland Irish labor Lanark liberty living living soil look Massillon means memory ment mighty mind moral nation nature ness never noble outward passion patriotism peace Phidias poetry poor popular preachers preaching present principle pulpit religion savage sentiment serf simple spirit slave slavery social society soil solemn sorrow soul speak strength sublime suffering tears things thou thought tion toil true truth United Irishman universe utterance vegeta virtue wealth wisdom worth wretchedness young
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Σελίδα 202 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven...
Σελίδα 295 - Man" impressed very legibly on Portland-stone there! Yes, all manner of help, and pious response from Men or Nature, is always what we call silent; cannot speak or come to light, till it be seen, till it be spoken to. Every noble work is at first "impossible.
Σελίδα 295 - Nature herself, who carries her mathematics and architectonics not on the face of her, but deep in the hidden heart of her — Nature herself is but partially for him : will be wholly against him, if he constrain her not ! His very money, where is it to come from ? The pious munificence of England lies far scattered, distant, unable to speak, and say, " I am here ;" — must be spoken to before it can speak.
Σελίδα 297 - Unstained by wasteful deformities, by wasted tears or heart's-blood of men, or any defacement of the Pit, noble fruitful Labour, growing ever nobler, will come forth — the grand sole miracle of Man ; whereby Man has risen from the low places of this Earth, very literally, into divine Heavens. Ploughers, Spinners, Builders ; Prophets, Poets, Kings ; Brindleys and Goethes, Odins and Arkwrights ; all martyrs, and noble men, and gods are of one grand Host ; immeasurable ; marching ever forward since...
Σελίδα 102 - He thus simply performed great acts, and uttered great thoughts, because they were familiar to his great soul. The charm of this inborn and homebred character seems as if it would have been taken off by polish. It is this household character which relieves our notion of him from vagueness, and divests perfection of that generality and coldness to which the attempt to paint a perfect man is so liable.
Σελίδα 101 - Of all men nearly perfect, Sir Thomas More had, perhaps, the clearest marks of individual character. His peculiarities, though distinguishing him from all others, were yet withheld from growing into moral faults. It is not enough to say of him that he was unaffected, that he was natural, that he was simple ; so the larger part of truly great men have been. But there is something homespun in More which...
Σελίδα 302 - No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintained, Called forth my virtues, or from vice restrained.
Σελίδα 25 - Monuments of war, of princedom, and religion cover the surface of the land. The meanest man lingers under the shadow of piles which tell him that his fathers were not slaves. He toils in the field or he walks on the highways with structures before him that have stood the storms of time, through which the wind echoes with the voice of centuries, arid that voice is to his heart the voice of soldiers, of scholars, and of saints.
Σελίδα 102 - ... native growth of the soil. The homeliness of his pleasantry purifies it from show. He walks on the scaffold clad only in his household goodness. The unrefined benignity with which he ruled his patriarchal dwelling at Chelsea enabled him to look on the axe without being disturbed by feeling hatred for the tyrant. This quality bound together his genius and learning, his eloquence and fame, with his homely and daily duties, bestowing a genuineness on all his good qualities, a dignity on the most...
Σελίδα 5 - We would replace the rags by decent 10* raiment, and we would fill the paunches with wholesome food, but we have only small respect for those who come to us in tatters and who rush to us from famine. We are a people who have had no experience in physical tribulation ; and we do not understand the virtues or the vices which such tribulation can produce. We do not know the fearful selfishness which exceeding want may generate ; but neither do we know the blessed charities which it may exhibit, the...