 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...of confident effrontery is beyond me: my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respec:and subordinates itself to the object ; it is love of...an expression, of having used a word out of place, whik all the time I ought to have been thinking of essential^ and aiming at breadth of treatment. I... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...of it. We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always trembling lest we are doing it a wrong. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my...respects and subordinates itself to the object ; it ia love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding. This passionless impartiality of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding. The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1887 - 524 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...to the object ; it is love of truth which holds me buck from concluding and deciding." The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. AVe must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own...which holds me back from concluding and deciding." The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding.' The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding. The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding.' The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1960 - 634 pages
...we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. 15 This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me; my...which holds me back from concluding and deciding.' The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and 10 limited, the fascination of the... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1890 - 416 pages
...concentration, decision, and pliancy which I no longer possess. I cannot fuse together materials and ideas my whole nature tends to that impersonality which...truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding .... I am afraid of having forgotten a point, of having exaggerated an expression, of having used a... | |
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We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my whole nature tends to that impersonality... 