| Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1917 - 1240 pages
...lie back in their chairs and laugh for five minutes for sheer delight. Meredith tells us that we may escape the title of fool at the cost of a celestial crown. I don't know what the neighbors called us, but there was no doubt about the crown! At the opposite pole... | |
| England - 1884 - 852 pages
...out of slime, must appear our one constant hero.' It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.' Of Poetry : ' Those that have souls meet their fellows there.' Touches inward are not absent : ' To... | |
| George Meredith - English fiction - 1888 - 420 pages
...out of slime, must appear our one con. stant hero." It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : " The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown." Of Poetry : " Those that have souls meet their fellows there." The excerpts italicized are from Henry... | |
| Allan Monkhouse - Literary Criticism - 1894 - 252 pages
...romance. You may love, and warmly love, so long as you are honest. Do not offend reason.' Again, he says of romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape...the title of fool at the cost of a celestial crown.' Of poetry: ' Those who have souls meet their brothers there.' Yet though much of his philosophy of... | |
| George Meredith - English literature - 1897 - 524 pages
...out of slime, must appear our one constant hero.' It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance: 'The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.' Of Poetry : ' Those that have souls meet their fellows there.' But she would have us away with sentimentalism.... | |
| George Meredith - Great Britain - 1897 - 442 pages
...of slime, must appear our one constant hero." It can be read maliciously, but abstain. .*" She says of Romance : " The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown." Of Poetry: " Those that have souls meet their fellows there." But she would have us away with sentimentalism.... | |
| George Meredith - English literature - 1897 - 546 pages
...out of slime, must appear our one constant hero.' It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown.' Of Poetry : ' Those that have souls meet their fellows there.' But she would have us away with sentimentalism.... | |
| George Meredith - 1897 - 308 pages
...out of slime, must appear our one constant hero.' It can be read maliciously, but abstain. She says of Romance : ' The young who avoid that region escape...the title of Fool at the cost of a celestial crown: Of Poetry: ' Those that have souls meet their fellows there' But she would have us away with sentimentalism.... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1897 - 308 pages
...the heroine preserved in The Leaves from the Diary of Henry Wilmers. Of romance Mrs. Warwick says : The young who avoid that region escape the title of fool at the cost of a celestial crown. And the lesson of her life is summarized in the sentence : There is nothing the body suffers that the... | |
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