He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain... The Family - Page 1391924Full view - About this book
| 1897 - 794 pages
...and not an acquisition —and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He appeals to temperament, and he speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder,...pity, and beauty,- and pain ; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation—and to the subtle, but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| 1920 - 284 pages
..."appeals to that part of us which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and therefore more permanently enduring....pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation." To those of us who have watched these exhibitions grow from year to... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 198 pages
...to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring....pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation— and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 250 pages
...to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring....pity, and beauty, and pain: to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - 1916 - 728 pages
...that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom ; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring....pity, and beauty, and pain: to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - 1916 - 350 pages
...being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to...pity, and beauty, and pain: to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation —and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| 1916 - 734 pages
...to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring....surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, aAd pain: to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible,... | |
| 1918 - 880 pages
...vivacious. He is a genuine artist, and, as is the function of the artist, in the words of Joseph Conrad, he " speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder,...pity and beauty and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| 1918 - 918 pages
...vivacious. He is a genuine artist,' and, as is the function of the artist, in the words of Joseph Conrad, he " speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder,...pity and beauty and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
| John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 332 pages
...to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring....pity, and beauty, and pain: to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits... | |
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