Selected Essays

admirable Anna Karénine aristocratic class Barbarians bathos beauty better Bible Bishop Colenso breathe Chaucer civilisation conduct Count Tolstoi criticism culture deal Descartes doctrine England English epoch equality Eternal feel force France Frederic Harrison French give Goethe Greek happiness Homer human nature ideal ideas Iliad imagine infinite instinct intelligent Israel kind knowledge language langue d'oil literary literature lived machinery mankind manner matter mean middle class Milton mind modern moral movement nation ness never Newman ourselves passion perfection perhaps Philistines philosophers Plato poems poet poetic poetry political powers of sympathy practical praise present Protestantism quaint religion render right reason righteousness scientific seems sense Shakespeare social soul speak sphere spirit style substance sweetness and light tell things thinks and loves Thomas Bateson thou thought tion translation true truth verse Wilson Barrett words Wordsworth Wronsky