The Art of Optimism as Taught by Robert BrowningT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1900 - 35 páginas |
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... nature of all objects of human desire , and the greatness of the soul that can rise above it all , lie side by side in unreconciled opposition . That is what gives the inimitable pathos to the literature of primitive peoples ; and to ...
... nature of all objects of human desire , and the greatness of the soul that can rise above it all , lie side by side in unreconciled opposition . That is what gives the inimitable pathos to the literature of primitive peoples ; and to ...
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... , the glory of our nature , the promise and potency of our progress and development , the assur- ance of our immortality . If good is satisfied feeling , which is to be given to us ready - made 14 THE ART OF OPTIMISM .
... , the glory of our nature , the promise and potency of our progress and development , the assur- ance of our immortality . If good is satisfied feeling , which is to be given to us ready - made 14 THE ART OF OPTIMISM .
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... nature , or natural selec- tion , as it is called , allows only the survival of the fittest . All that is unfit is by virtue of its unfitness already on the high road to extinction . The best always wins in the struggle for existence ...
... nature , or natural selec- tion , as it is called , allows only the survival of the fittest . All that is unfit is by virtue of its unfitness already on the high road to extinction . The best always wins in the struggle for existence ...
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... nature are constantly doing . They fight evil , and from the contest win content , and even joy . Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting , or unrewarding , who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong which he can ...
... nature are constantly doing . They fight evil , and from the contest win content , and even joy . Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting , or unrewarding , who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong which he can ...
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Términos y frases comunes
active voice antelope art of optimism art of pessimism blindness boat all hole breast Browning's Epilogue conquering power dark grave death dowry draught of dew dreamed drunk my last DUE SEP earth fact fell one day fight finite folded hands forevermore friends give God's happy hate help to remedy human experi husband jackals Jesus and Paul last dew last sweet draught live lovers material of pessimism mill-stream it fell miserable never once OPTIMISM AS TAUGHT optimists passive voice peasant-poet permanent satisfaction pessimism and optimism pessimist place and perform poem poet Pompilia ready-made roar ROBERT BROWNING robust optimism rules for pessimism satisfied serene shoeblack shroud side simply soldier asked soldier spake sorrow soul soul's strength spindle of hazelwood spring sure TAUGHT BY ROBERT three parts pain tion triumph truth unfitness unsatisfied desire victory wait water has brought worst wrong Yesterday's flowers
Pasajes populares
Página 11 - DOVER BEACH THE sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 15 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 12 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 35 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 12 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 22 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Página 5 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Página 30 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity confirms the conception of an hour.
Página 28 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Página 33 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.