Jacinto BenaventeH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 218 pages |
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Page 202 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and...
Page 122 - Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell' eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Page 82 - Come, come, my daughter! dont make too much of your little tinpot tragedy. What do we do here when we spend years of work and thought and thousands of pounds of solid cash on a new gun or an aerial battleship that turns out just a hairsbreadth wrong after all? Scrap it. Scrap it without wasting another hour or another pound on it.
Page 82 - Well, you have made for yourself something that you call a morality or a religion or what not. It doesnt fit the facts. Well, scrap it. Scrap it and get one that does fit. That is what is wrong with the world at present. It scraps its obsolete steam engines and dynamos; but it wont scrap its old prejudices and its old moralities and its old religions and its old political constitutions.
Page 150 - Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed.
Page 13 - ... tragic element, normal, deep-rooted, and universal, that the true tragic element of life only begins at the moment when so-called adventures, sorrows, and dangers have disappeared? Is the arm of happiness not longer than that of sorrow, and do not certain of its attributes draw nearer to the soul? Must we indeed roar like the Atrides, before the Eternal God will reveal Himself in our life?
Page 82 - Well, scrap it. Scrap it and get one that does fit. That is what is wrong with the world at present. It scraps its obsolete steam engines and dynamos; but it wont scrap its old prejudices and its old moralities and its old religions and its old political constitutions. Whats the result? In machinery it does very well ; but in morals and religion and politics it is working at a loss that brings it nearer bankruptcy every year.
Page 82 - What do we do here when we spend years of work and thought and thousands of pounds of solid cash on a new gun or an aerial battleship that turns out just a hairsbreadth wrong after all? Scrap it. Scrap it without wasting another hour or another pound on it. Well, you have made for yourself something that you call a morality or a religion or what not.
Page 66 - Cultivated men and women, who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. Moliere is their poet.
Page 16 - The remark is a striking one and goes a long way towards giving us a key to the Spanish soul. Spain can never be entirely European — she has always resisted with tenacity any invader, and the spectacle of the chief men of Saguntum throwing themselves and their treasures into the flames of their burning city has been repeated many a time in her history. However far her intellectuals may assimilate the ideals of her neighbors, there is always the leavening of xii espanolismo in her literature and...