The Way of All FleshE. P. Dutton, 1916 - 464 ページ Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement." |
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110 ページ - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue. "And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them, and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes.
vi ページ - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick...
155 ページ - For it cost more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone for ever ; 9 Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.
110 ページ - Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. 30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
114 ページ - The lion is strong; when he raiseth up himself from his lair, when he shaketh his mane, when the voice of his roaring is heard, the cattle of the field fly, and the wild beasts of the desert hide themselves, for he is very terrible.
ii ページ - It drives one almost to despair of English literature when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression...
292 ページ - It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
95 ページ - OUT of the deep have I called unto Thee, O LORD : LORD, hear my voice. 0 let Thine ears consider well : the voice of my complaint. If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O LORD, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with Thee : therefore shalt Thou be feared.
110 ページ - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
428 ページ - He assures me that this was the only spiteful thing he did during the whole time he was at Battersby. When he went up to his bedroom, in which to do them justice they had given him a fire, he noticed what indeed he had noticed as soon as he was shown into it on his arrival — that there was an illuminated card framed and glazed over his bed with the words, "Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to even-song.