The Cornhill Magazine, כרך 16;כרך 20George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1867 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 80
עמוד 27
... German element of the modern character predominates . During the two centuries from which we have emerged , the Latin element had the upper hand . Our love of the Alps is a Gothic , a Teutonic , instinct ; sympathetic with all that is ...
... German element of the modern character predominates . During the two centuries from which we have emerged , the Latin element had the upper hand . Our love of the Alps is a Gothic , a Teutonic , instinct ; sympathetic with all that is ...
עמוד 30
... German style of music has asserted an unquestionable ascendancy , that the greatest lovers of this art prefer Beethoven's symphonies to merely vocal music , and that harmony is even more regarded than melody . That is to say , the vocal ...
... German style of music has asserted an unquestionable ascendancy , that the greatest lovers of this art prefer Beethoven's symphonies to merely vocal music , and that harmony is even more regarded than melody . That is to say , the vocal ...
עמוד 50
... of the whole current , the fit person to be entrusted with its regula- tion and to guide the human race . The excellent German historian of the mythology of Rome , Preller , relating the introduction 50 CULTURE AND ITS ENEMIES .
... of the whole current , the fit person to be entrusted with its regula- tion and to guide the human race . The excellent German historian of the mythology of Rome , Preller , relating the introduction 50 CULTURE AND ITS ENEMIES .
עמוד 53
... German with a reverence and enthusiasm such as the names of the most gifted masters will hardly awaken . Because they humanized knowledge ; because they broadened the basis of life and intelligence ; because they worked powerfully to ...
... German with a reverence and enthusiasm such as the names of the most gifted masters will hardly awaken . Because they humanized knowledge ; because they broadened the basis of life and intelligence ; because they worked powerfully to ...
עמוד 54
... German was the only one of his family who attended old Bessie's funeral . Ashford at the last moment declared that he was obliged to obey a sum- mons from his landlord , who lived at a distance and only visited his estate in the hills ...
... German was the only one of his family who attended old Bessie's funeral . Ashford at the last moment declared that he was obliged to obey a sum- mons from his landlord , who lived at a distance and only visited his estate in the hills ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alpujarras arms Ashford asked beautiful believe better breech-loader British Museum Buda called capitaine Capuchon Carratraca cartridge Cassie church Colonel Bramleigh coolies court cried Cutbill dinner England English Erasmus eyes face father feel fellow fire Frederic Harrison funds German girl give guineas hand head hear heard heart honour Hungarians Jack King L'Estrange la Louvière lady laugh live look Lord Culduff Lorlotte Lydia Magyar marriage Marryat Marthe matter Maynard mean mind Miss Triquett morning mountain Museum nature never night ointment once passed Patty perfection perhaps persons poor present Rabelais Rémy rifle Roland Ronda round satire seemed seen side Sierra Nevada Snider rifle sort South Kensington Spain speak specimens sure talk tell thee things thought told town Trevithic turned village walk walls whole words young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 51 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
עמוד 546 - 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.
עמוד 39 - And religion, the greatest and most important of the efforts by which the human race has manifested its impulse to perfect itself, — religion, that voice of the deepest human experience,— does not only enjoin and sanction the aim which is the great aim of culture, the aim of setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is and to make it prevail...
עמוד 22 - The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, the engineers tell us," said Longworth, •' and it is the same with evidence.
עמוד 44 - But the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all its sides, which is the dominant idea of poetry, is a true and invaluable idea, though it has not yet had the success that the idea of conquering the obvious faults of our animality, and of a human nature perfect on the moral side,— which is the dominant idea of religion,— has been enabled to have...
עמוד 53 - Plenty of people will try to give the masses, as they call them, an intellectual food prepared and adapted in the way they think proper for the actual condition of the masses. The ordinary popular literature is an example of this way of working on the masses.
עמוד 38 - The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence .of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent.
עמוד 553 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
עמוד 53 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely,— nourished and not bound by them.
עמוד 38 - ... worthy of blame and not of praise. For as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.