On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, Pamphlets, Etc., Etc., Published 1834-1885, Volume 1, Part 2G. Allen, 1885 |
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Page 633 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 431 - This then is the great enigma of Art History, you must not follow Art without pleasure, nor must you follow it for the sake of pleasure. And the solution of that enigma is simply this fact ; that wherever Art has been followed only for the sake of luxury or delight, it has contributed, and largely contributed, to bring about the destruction of the nation practising it : but wherever Art has been used also to teach any truth, or supposed truth — religious, moral, or natural— there it has elevated...
Page 688 - You must be resolved to labour, and to lose, yourself, before you can rescue this overlaboured lost sheep, and offer it alive to its Master. If then, my benevolent friend, you are prepared to take OUT your two pence, and to give them to the hosts here in Cumberland, saying — " Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, I will repay thee when I come to Cumberland myself," on these terms — oh my benevolent friends, I am with you, hand and glove, in every effort you wish to make for the...
Page 682 - THE evidence collected in the following pages,1 in support of their pleading, is so complete, and the summary of his cause given with so temperate mastery by Mr. Somervell, that I find nothing to add in circumstance, and little to reinforce in argument. And I have less heart to the writing even of what brief preface so good work might by its author's courtesy be permitted to receive from me, occupied as I so long have been in efforts tending in the same direction, because, on that very account, I...
Page 692 - ... as it were, dazzled and dazed. A brilliant light which seemed to sink out of the landscape all its reds and yellows, and with them all life ; bleaching the yellowing cornfields and brown heath ; but burnishing into demoniac energy of colour the pastures and oak woods, brilliant against the dark sky as if filled with green fire. Along the roadside the poppies, which an ordinary sunset makes flame, were quite extinguished, like burnt-out embers ; the yellow hearts of the daisies were quite lost,...
Page 390 - ... FRY COLLECTION PRESENTED BY THE MISSES ESTHER CATHARINE, SUSAN MARY AND JOSEPHINE FRY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOSEPH FORREST FRY AND SUSANNA FRY \ THE GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.
Page 658 - ... accept it. And, worse still, you find such confidence in the power of the creed that men not only can do anything that is wrong, and be themselves for a word of faith pardoned, but are even sure that after the wrong is done God is sure to put it all right again for them, or even make things better than they were before. Now I need not point out to you how the spirit of persecution as well as of vain hope, founded on creed only, is mingled in every line with the lovely moral teaching of the Divina...
Page 722 - This change in the structure of existing rocks is traceable through continuous gradations, so that a black mud or calcareous slime is imperceptibly modified into a magnificently hard and crystalline substance, enclosing nests of beryl, topaz, and sapphire, and veined with gold. But it cannot be determined how far, or m what localities, these changes are yet arrested ; in the plurality of instances, they are evidently yet in progress.
Page 715 - Davy in hie lonely meditations on the crags of Cornwall, or, in his solitary laboratory, might discover the most sublime mysteries of nature, and trace out the most intricate combinations of her elements. But the meteorologist is impotent if alone ; his observations are useless, for they are made upon a point, while the speculations to be derived from them must be on space.
Page 467 - To the discernment of this law we will now address ourselves slowly, beginning with the consideration of little things, and of easily definable virtues. And since Patience is the pioneer of all the others, I shall endeavour in the next paper to show how that modest virtue has been either held of no account, or else set to vilest work in our modern Art-schools; and what harm has resulted from such disdain, or such employment of her. CHAPTER III " Dame Pacience sitting there I fonde," With face pale,...