The artist is first a seeker who in life searches for moments bound by common experience. Motivated less by the ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXVI: LIFE
But in all this, and indeed beyond all this, we must not dare to ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXV: THE PRINCIPLE OF BEAUTY
"I have loved,"said Keats, "the principle of beauty in all things." ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXIV: THE SENSE OF BEAUTY
There is one difficulty which stands at the threshold of dealing ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XIV: VISIONS
I used as a child to pore over the Apocalypse, which I thought by ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XIII: HUMOUR
The Castle of Joyous Gard was always full of laughter; not the wild giggling, ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XII: RETROSPECT
But one must not forget that after all memory has another side, too often ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XI: MEMORY
Memory is for many people the only form of poetry which theyindulge. If a ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
X: EMOTION
We are a curious nation, we English! Stendhal says that our two most patent ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXIII: PROGRESS
We must always hopefully and gladly remember that the great movements, doctrines, thoughts, which ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXII: FAITH
We ought to learn to cultivate, train, regulate emotion, just as we train other ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XXI: EXPERIENCE
It is very strange to contemplate the steady plunge of good advice, like a ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XX: HOPE
The other day I took up idly some magazine or other, one of those ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
IX GROWTH
AS the years go on, what one begins to perceive about so many people-though ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
VIII: KNOWLEDGE
"Knowledge is power," says the old adage; and yet so meaningless now, in many ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
VII: EDUCATION
It is clear that the progress of the individual and the world alike depends ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
VI: INTERPRETATION
Is the secret of life then a sort of literary rapture, a princely thing, ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XIX: WORK
I came out of the low-arched door with a sense of relief and passed ...
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Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson
XVIII: SCIENCE
I read the other day a very downright book, with a kind of dry ...
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XVII: SYMPATHY
But there is one thing which we must constantly bear in mind, and which ...
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