On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in HistoryJ. Wiley, 1859 - 64 ページ |
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Allegory altogether answer Arab beautiful believe better Books Burns century Christian confused Cromwell Dante Dante's darkness dead death deep divine earnest Earth Elizabethan Era England Euphuism everywhere fact faculty faith false falsehood fancy feel forever French Revolution genuine God's Goethe heart Heaven Hero Hero-worship heroic human Hymir hypochondria Idolatry infinite insincerity intellect Jötuns kind King Knox Koreish light live look Luther Mahomet man's manner mean misery Napoleon nation Nature never noble Norse Odin old Norse once Paganism Parliament perhaps Poet poetic poor preaching Priest Prophet Protestantism Puritans quackery reality Reformation religion reverence rude Samuel Johnson Scandinavian Scepticism seems Semblance Shakspeare shews silent sincere Skalds Song sorrow sort soul speak speech spiritual strange struggle Theocracy thing Thor thought true truth Universe utter valour victory vulpine whatsoever whole wild withal wonder words worship Wuotan
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74 ページ - A musical thought is one spoken by a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of the thing ; detected the inmost mystery of it, namely the melody that lies hidden in it ; the inward harmony of coherence which is its soul, whereby it exists, and has a right to be, here in this world.
1 ページ - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodyment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into...
12 ページ - No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
143 ページ - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
144 ページ - Clifford' acted: the foolish Theorem of Life, stamped into those young brains, comes out as a solid Practice one day. Consider whether any Rune in the wildest imagination of Mythologist ever did such wonders as, on the actual firm Earth, some Books have done!
41 ページ - Really his utterances, are they not a kind of 'revelation' — what we must call such for want of some other name? It is from the heart of the world that he comes; he is portion of the primal reality of things.
127 ページ - I will call this Luther a true Great Man ; great in intellect, in courage, affection and integrity ; one of our most lovable and precious men. Great, not as a hewn obelisk ; but as an Alpine mountain, — so simple, honest, spontaneous, not setting up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green beautiful valleys with flowers...
130 ページ - Scotch Literature and Thought, Scotch Industry ; James Watt, David Hume, Walter Scott, Robert Burns : I find Knox and the Reformation acting in the heart's core of every one of these persons and phenomena ; I find that without the Reformation they would not have been.
85 ページ - What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy's being a poor splenetic impotent terrestrial libel ; putting those into Hell whom he could not be avenged upon on earth ! I suppose if ever pity, tender as a mother's, was in the heart of any man, it was in Dante's. But a man who does not know rigor cannot pity either. His very pity will be cowardly, egoistic, — sentimentality, or little better.
99 ページ - Sceptic,' as some do; his indifference to the creeds and theological quarrels of his time misleading them. No: neither unpatriotic, though he says little about his Patriotism; nor sceptic, though he says little about his Faith. Such 'indifference' was the fruit of his greatness withal: his whole heart was in his own grand sphere of worship (we may call it such): these other controversies, vitally important to other men, were not vital to him.