Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,... The royal banner and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to pre...vent their becoming so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the cour...t and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Different as the two poets are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war with Eliot, it is possible to discer...n interesting resemblances beneath the obvious contrasts. In both men the central theme is metaphysical desolation. Both poets are profoundly at odds with the current of secular optimism flowing from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century. Frost's New England landscape, spare, hard, and usually unyield ing, inhabited by its declining Yankee stock, can be taken as an extended metaphor expressive of that desolation. In Frost's poetry the central persona or dramatic voice speaking the poems finds ways to live with that desolation. In Eliot's poetry the central persona lives through and finally beyond the desolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in Lon...don--he arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswell--turned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do ...something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He does not create his object in reality as does the painter, but he creates, before the camera begins to function, the irrevocabl...y ultimate aesthetic form. He carries the notion of the shape of an object in himself and he takes the object destined for that form, giving it a certain position or moving it into a certain situation of light, in a certain relation to space.... The photographer's artistic performance is thus displayed in pre-photographic and in post-photographic action; in the preparation for real photographic action and in the reproduction of the photograph. The painter recreates his object from beginning to end ... through his activity, through his painting. The photographer, it is true, changes his object, too, by his photographic action ... he gives the convincing shape, most clearly adequate to his perception, before, and he fixes this shape in a mechanistic way.... Whereas the painter remains creative from first to last, the creative activity of the photographer is confined and limited; whereas the artistic action of the painter is not interrupted, the artistic action of the photographer breaks off in the moment in which the apparatus is to fix and make visible its effect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The square dance fiddler's first concern is to carry a tune, but he must carry it loud enough to be heard over the noise of stampi...ng feet, the cries of the "caller," and the shouts of the dancers. When he fiddles, he "fiddles all over"; feet, hands, knees, head, and eyes are all busy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »