On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and AdditionsWiley & Halsted, 1857 - 218 pages |
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Page 44 - Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow ; sublime reconciliation ; oldest choral melody, as of the heart of mankind. So soft and great ; as the summer midnight ; as the world with its seas and stars. There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible, or out of it, of equal literary merit
Page 74 - A musical thought is one spoken by a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of the thing ; detected the inmost mystery of it, namely the melody that lies hidden in it ; the inward harmony of coherence which is its soul, whereby it exists, and has a right to be, here in this world.
Page 1 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodyment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into...
Page 2 - World; and I say, if you tell me what that is, you tell me to a very great extent what the man is, what the kind of things he will do is.
Page 143 - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Page 59 - If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.
Page 174 - Duchesses to dinner; the cynosure of all eyes ! Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Page 63 - Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.
Page 86 - Paradiso, a kind of inarticulate music to me, is the redeeming side of the Inferno; the Inferno without it were untrue. All three make up the true Unseen. World, as figured in the Christianity of the Middle Ages; a thing forever memorable, forever true in the. essence of it, to all men.
Page 42 - David's life and history, as written for us in those Psalms of his, I consider to be the truest emblem ever given of a man's moral progress and warfare here below. All earnest souls will ever discern in it the faithful struggle of an earnest human soul towards what is good and best. Struggle often baffled, sore baffled, down as into entire wreck; yet a struggle never ended; ever, with tears, repentance, true unconquerable purpose, begun anew.