Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870 |
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Page 27 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Page 28 - ... will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings ; a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace ; mistress of Learning and of the Arts ; — faithful guardian of great memories in the• midst of irreverent and ephemeral visions; — faithful servant of time-tried principles, under temptation from fond experiments and licentious desires ; and amidst the cruel and clamorous jealousies of the nations, worshipped in her strange valour of goodwill...
Page 121 - They endeavour to imitate these dazzling excellences, which they will find no great labour in attaining. After much time spent in these frivolous pursuits, the difficulty will be to retreat ; but it will be then too late ; and there is scarce an instance of return to scrupulous labour, after the mind has been debauched and deceived by this fallacious mastery.
Page 26 - The art, or general productive and formative energy, of any country, is an exact exponent of its ethical life.
Page 118 - Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close : — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves ; so, from day to day, and strength to strength, you shall build up indeed, by Art, by Thought, and by Just Will, an Ecclesia of England, of which it shall not be said, ' See what manner of stones are here,' but,
Page 28 - Within the last few years we have had the laws of natural science opened to us with a rapidity which has been blinding by its brightness ; and means of transit and communication given to us, which have made but one kingdom of the habitable globe.
Page 22 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 70 - I wish you also to remember these lines of Pope, and to make yourselves entirely masters of his system of ethics ; because, putting Shakespeare aside as rather the world's than ours, I hold Pope to be the most perfect representative we have, since Chaucer, of the true English mind ; and I think the Dunciad is the most absolutely chiselled and monumental work 'exacted' in our country. You will find, as you study Pope, that he has expressed for you, in the strictest language and within the briefest...
Page 62 - This is the thing which I KNOW — and which, if you labour faithfully, you shall know also, — that in Reverence is the chief joy and power of life ; — Reverence, for what is pure and bright in your own youth ; for what is true and tried in the age of others ; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, — and marvellous in the Powers that cannot die.
Page 15 - ... some of quite the greatest, wisest, and most moral of English writers now almost useless for our youth. And yet you will find that whenever Englishmen are wholly without this instinct, their genius is comparatively weak and restricted.