Democratic Vistas: And Other PapersWalter Scott, 1888 - 175 стор. |
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24 Warwick Lane æsthetic ages aggregate America amid artist beauty Burns century character civilization consider'd democracy democratic divine Edited by William elements emotional entirely Ernest Rhys ESSAYS esthetic eternal expression fact faith feudal first-class freedom fully future genius give grand Havelock Ellis highest hitherto humanity idea Iliad important indispensable individual intellect Introduction Joseph Skipsey lands Leaves of Grass literary literature mainly masses material Mathilde Blind ment modern moral nation native Nature needs never passions past perennial perhaps personality poems poetic poetry poets political present purposes question race religion religious rest rhyme Robert Burns sense Shakspere society sociology song soul spirit T. W. Rolleston tally themes theory things thought tion to-day true United universal vast verse Vistas WALT WHITMAN Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT wealth whole William O'Connor William Sharp women
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Сторінка 175 - THOREAU'S ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH AN INTROduction, by Will H. Dircks. 5 CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. By Thomas De Quincey. With Introductory Note by William Sharp. 6 LANDOR'S IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS. SELECTED, with Introduction, by Havelock Ellis. 7 PLUTARCH'S LIVES (LANGHORNE). WITH INTROductory Note by BJ Snell, MA 8 BROWNE'S RELIGIO MEDICI, ETC. WITH INTROduction by J. Addington Symonds. 9 SHELLEY'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS. EDITED, WITH Introductory Note, by Ernest Rhys.
Сторінка 66 - I confidently expect a time when there will be seen, running like a half-hid warp through all the myriad audible and visible worldly interests of America, threads of manly friendship, fond and loving, pure and sweet, strong and life-long, carried to degrees hitherto unknown...
Сторінка 123 - I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair. What is that which I should turn to, lighting upon days like these? Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys.
Сторінка 38 - We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.
Сторінка 41 - I should demand a program of culture, drawn out, not for a single class alone, or for the parlors or lecture rooms, but with an eye to practical life, the west, the workingmen, the facts of farms and jackplanes and engineers, and of the broad range of the women also of the middle and working strata, and with reference to the perfect equality of women, and of a grand and powerful motherhood. I should demand of this program or theory a scope generous enough to include the widest human area.
Сторінка 13 - ... the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceas'd, shallow notions of beauty, with a range of manners, or rather lack of manners, (considering the advantages enjoy'd,) probably the meanest to be seen in the world...