 | Charles Reade - 1902 - 726 pages
...drivel ten honest words. I say before heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's duty by them, ie,...grand topics that lie this day on the world's face. I fay that he who has eyes to see may now see greater and far more poetic things than human eyes have... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 848 pages
...heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's work by them, ie so paint them as a later age will be content...greater and far more poetic things than human eyes have ever seen since our Lord and His Apostles and His miracles left the earth. It is very hard to write... | |
 | Walter Frewen Lord - English fiction - 1906 - 330 pages
...heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's work by them, ie so paint them as a later age will be content...greater and far more poetic things than human eyes have ever seen since our Lord and His Apostles and His miracles left the earth. It is very hard to write... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 730 pages
...something noble in the creed : I say before heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's duty by them, ie,...that he who has eyes to see may now see greater and more poetic things than human eyes have seen since our Lord and His apostles and His miracles left... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 730 pages
...characters in novels. I say before heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's duty by them, ie,...that he who has eyes to see may now see greater and more poetic things than human eyes have seen since our Lord and His apostles and His miracles left... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1903 - 1082 pages
...heaven and earth that the man who could grasp the facts of this day and do an immortal writer's work by them, ie so paint them as a later age will be content...greater and far more poetic things than human eyes have ever seen since our Lord and His Apostles and His miracles left the earth. It is very hard to write... | |
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... by them, ie so paint them as a later age will be content to engrave them, would be the greatest writer ever lived: such is the force, weight, and number of the grand topics that lie this day on the world's face. I say that he who has eyes to see may... 