Mr. Goodman's book The Tragedy of Sebastian Knight has enjoyed very good press. It has been lengthily reviewed in the leading dail...ies and weeklies. It has been called "impressive and convincing." The author has been credited with "deep insight" into an "essentially modern" character. Passages have been quoted to demonstrate his efficient handling of nutshells. One critic went so far as to take his hat off to Mr. Goodman--who, let it be added, had used his own merely to talk through it. In a word, Mr. Goodman has been patted on the back when he ought to have been rapped on the knuckles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Eglamour, that worthy knight, He took his sword and went to fight;... And as he rode both hill and dale, Armed upon his shirt of mail, A dragon came out of his den, Had slain, God knows how many men!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only a fully trained Jedi knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his emperor. If you end your training now--if y...ou choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did--you will become an agent of evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hear much of chivalry of men towards women; but ... it vanishes like dew before the summer sun when one of us comes into compet...ition with the manly sex. Let a woman sit, weep, wring her hands, and exult in her own helplessness, and the modern knight buckles on his imaginary breastplate and draws his sword in her behalf; but when the woman girds up her loins for the battle of life, ready to fight like a lioness, if need be, to put food in the mouths of her children, let her select for her field the living-room or the cooking range.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.... Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O mortal folk, you may behold and see How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;... The end of joy and all prosperity Is death at last, thorough his course and might;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The priest and bridegroom wait the bride And dame and knight are there.... They sought her baith by bower and ha The ladie was not seen! She's o'er the Border and awa' Wi' Jock of Hazeldean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »