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Page 239 - Stick to a people not at the mercy of their impulses, and besides a people with so fine a literature must be worthy of love. — Captain Maxse wrote to me the other day about an examination in the Foreign Office for the post of Chinese interpreter — for you : if successful to go out to China with a salary of £200 per annum and learn the Chinese tongue of li-ro and fo-ki. I declined it : I hope I was right. I felt sure that it would be repugnant to you to spend your life in China, where the climate...
Page 158 - Between realism and idealism, there is no natural conflict. This completes that. Realism is the basis of good composition : it implies study, observation, artistic power, and (in those who can do more) humility.
Page 239 - Truth are one. Look for the truth in everything, and follow it, and you will then be living justly before God. Let nothing flout your sense of a Supreme Being, and be certain that your understanding wavers whenever you chance to doubt that he leads to good. We grow to good as surely as the plant grows to the light. The school has only to look through history for a scientific assurance of it. And do not lose the habit of praying to the unseen Divinity. Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless...
Page 316 - Piranezi's rarer prints, Interiors measurelessly strange, Where the distrustful thought may range Misgiving still — what mean the hints? Stairs upon stairs which dim ascend In series from plunged Bastiles drear — Pit under pit; long tier on tier Of shadowed galleries which impend Over cloisters, cloisters without end; The...
Page 200 - Muses' clothes-line and hung it with jewelry. 198 LETTERS OF GEORGE MEREDITH corrupted this fine (natural) singer. In his degraded state I really believe he is useful, for he reflects as much as our Society chooses to show of itself. The English notion of passion, virtue, valour, is in his pages : and the air and the dress we assume are seen there.
Page 136 - Let men make good blood, I constantly cry. I hold that to be rightly materialist — to understand and take Nature as she is — is to get on the true divine highroad.
Page 303 - Cross, hast thou withdrawn, Dim paling too at every dawn, With symbols vain once counted wise, And gods declined to heraldries ? Estranged, estranged : can friend prove so ? Aloft, aloof, a frigid sign : How far removed, thou Tree divine, Whose tender fruit did reach so low— Love apples of...
Page 74 - Abject, the latest shame of time; These quite repelled, for still his mind Erring, was of no vulgar kind. Alone, and at Doubt's freezing pole He wrestled with the pristine forms Like the first man.
Page 158 - Idealism is as an atmosphere whose effects of grandeur are wrought out through a series of illusions, that are illusions to the sense within us only when divorced from the groundwork of the real. Need there be exclusion, the one of the other? The artist is incomplete who does this. Men to whom I bow my head (Shakespeare, Goethe; and in their way, Moliere, Cervantes) are Realists au fond. But they have the broad arms of Idealism at command. They give us Earth; but it is earth with an atmosphere.
Page 56 - IWhich claimed~for patron thee divine? Anew, anew, For this thou bleedest, Anguished Face; Yea, thou through ages to accrue, Shalt the Medusa shield replace: In beauty and in terror too Shalt paralyze the nobler race— Smite or suspend, perplex, deter— Tortured, shalt prove a torturer. Whatever ribald Future be, Thee shall these heed, amaze their hearts with thee— Thy white, thy red, thy fairness and thy tragedy. He turned, uptorn in inmost frame, Nor weened he went the way he came, Till meeting...