Character and Characteristic MenTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 324 頁 |
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abstract acter action Agassiz American animal assimilation atheism audacity beautiful Becky Sharp Ben Jonson beneficent Blithedale Romance brain char character Charles Lamb common conception creative death divine Donatello eccentric elements eloquence energy England English Mind exhibit expression facts faculties fear feeling folly force genial genius give glory Goethe Hawthorne heart hero heroic heroism ideal ideas imagination individual insight inspiration instinct institutions intellectual intelligence laws liberty literature living Lord Lord Cam Lord North Marble Faun ment mental misanthropy moral national mind natural theology never object observation opinions organized passions patriotism peculiar persistency philosophers poets political practical principles qualities readers reason reformer relations religion romance Scarlet Letter seems selfishness sense sentiment Shakespeare soul spirit statesmen sure Thackeray Thackeray's things thinker THOMAS STARR KING thought tion tive truth Twice-Told Tales vanity vices vigor virtue vital Webster whole wisdom words
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第 228 頁 - There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children.
第 149 頁 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha' the truth on't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian...
第 120 頁 - Behold an emblem: those who do endure Deep wrongs for man, and scorn, and chains, but heap Thousandfold torment on themselves and him.
第 322 頁 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
第 7 頁 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand different things: the learned and the ignorant, the wise and the foolish, infancy and age have come in...
第 112 頁 - All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and tenderly; for...
第 231 頁 - Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral ; — the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable...
第 186 頁 - I come to you a prophet from the Lord God, who has sent me to thee, and would have thee grant a nolle prosequi for John Atkins, his servant, whom thou hast sent to prison.
第 7 頁 - ... this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature; it bears the name of Goethe.
第 238 頁 - Faun," which must, on the whole, be considered the greatest of his works, proves that his genius has widened and deepened in this interval, without any alteration or modification of its characteristic merits and characteristic defects. The most obvious excellence of the work is the vivid truthfulness of its descriptions of Italian life, manners, and scenery; and, considered merely as a record of a tour in Italy, it is of great interest and attractiveness. The opinions on Art, and the special criticisms...