L'idealisme anglais: étude sur Carlyle

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G. Baillière, 1864 - 187 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 110 - Generation after generation takes to itself the Form of a Body; and forth-issuing from Cimmerian Night, on Heaven's mission APPEARS. What Force and Fire is in each he expends: one grinding in the mill of Industry; one hunter-like climbing the giddy Alpine heights of Science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife, in war with his fellow: — and then the Heaven-sent is recalled; his earthly Vesture falls away, and soon even to Sense becomes a vanished Shadow.
Pàgina 26 - says he,' what is man ? An ' omnivorous Biped that wears Breeches. To the eye of Pure ' Reason what is he ? A soul, a Spirit, and divine Apparition.
Pàgina 15 - Silence as of death,' writes he; 'for Midnight, even in the Arctic latitudes, has its character: nothing but the granite cliffs ruddy-tinged, the peaceable gurgle of that slow-heaving Polar Ocean, over which in the utmost North the great Sun hangs low and lazy, as if he too were slumbering. Yet is his cloud-couch wrought of crimson and...
Pàgina 40 - ... that of attainable. All knowledge and device and effort ought to be directed thither and thither only ; Pig Science, Pig Enthusiasm and Devotion have this one aim. It is the Whole Duty of Pigs. ' 5. Pig Poetry ought to consist of universal recognition of the excellence of Pig's-wash and ground barley, and the felicity of Pigs whose trough is in order, and who have had enough : Hrumph ! ' 6. The Pig knows the weather; he ought to look out what kind of weather it will be. '7. "Who made the Pig?
Pàgina 101 - All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all : Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth.
Pàgina 117 - With Stupidity and sound Digestion man may front much. But what, in these dull unimaginative days, are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the Liver! Not on Morality, but on Cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our fryingpan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his Elect!
Pàgina 172 - Universe as it is not. We have quietly closed our eyes to the eternal Substance of things, and opened them only to the Shows and Shams of things.
Pàgina 122 - SKIN of the Body Politic, holding the whole together and protecting it ; and all your Craft-Guilds, and Associations for Industry, of hand or of head, are the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular and osseous Tissues (lying under such SKIN), whereby Society stands and works ; — then is Religion the inmost Pericardial and Nervous Tissue, which ministers Life and warm Circulation to the whole.
Pàgina 129 - J/isceManies.passim. de sa nation, de son âge; vous reconnaissez ici toutes les formules germaniques. Elles signifient que l'artiste démêle et exprime mieux que personne les traits saillants et durables du monde qui l'entoure, en sorte qu'on peut extraire de son œuvre une théorie de l'homme et de la nature, en même temps qu'une peinture de sa race et de son temps.

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