The Gay Science (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Aesthetics, Band 12)

Name: The Gay Science (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of Aesthetics, Band 12)
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By Dallas, Eneas Sweetland

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a * scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. THE ETHICAL CURRENT. HEN a painter draws his own portrait, Chapter he has the advantage of a mirror--in which he can see himself at a "!!diffj.. cmty of improper distance. But when we attempt to.ie«,andu'g 11 B A one s own understand or to delineate the age we live in, &» we are apt to forget that we have no chance of viewing it from a sufficient distance--that we are too much in it to be able to see how it looks on the broad plain of history. Perhaps no col-lection of opinions would be more curious than those which even great thinkers have pro-nounced upon their own times. Thus we find Bacon expressing a " doubt that this age of the world is somewhat upon the descent of the wheel." Hooker complained that the same age was deficient in learning. Bishop King described it as " this prodigal and intemperate age of the Chapter world." Michael Drayton summed it up as ' "this lunatic age." The period so decried is the opinions the grand Elizabethan epoch, which we now bethanson extol as the proudest in our annals. And yet bethan age. of Drayton, who could speak of the time in which he flourished as lunatic, Ben Jonson says, "I find in him, which is in most of my compatriots, too great an admiration of their country." theopinion One naturally recurs to these opinions con of contain-b. L poraries.ni cerning the Elizabethan age, when we hear what ag«. even men of ability can now assert regarding our Victorian era. Archdeacon Hare says it is an age of superficial character, feeble-minded, earthworshipping and self-idolizing. Mr. John George Phillimore assures us that all strength has gone from our literature, and that we are little better than the beasts. Mr. Matthew Arnold tells lis that we have no ideas, and that England is hindmost in the in...

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 714
Release Date:: 1990-01-01
Publication Date:: 1990-01-01
Publisher:: The Thoemmes Libraries
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1843714051

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