Goldwin Smith's Profile
Brief about Goldwin Smith: By info that we know Goldwin Smith was born at 1970-01-01. And also Goldwin Smith is Canadian Historian.
Some Goldwin Smith's quotes. Goto "Goldwin Smith's quotation" section for more.There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Tags: Art, Power, TryingWhatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
Tags: May, Themselves, WhateverWho can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
Tags: Character, Doubt, HistoryYet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Tags: Cannot, Church, ReligiousAmerica is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Tags: America, Good, UglyPersonality is lower than partiality.
Tags: Lower, PartialityThe insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
Tags: Arrogance, Character, JokeArt is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Tags: Art, Expression, HighEvery one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Tags: Beauty, Heart, PoetryI heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Tags: Heard, Heaven, HimselfIf it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Tags: Effort, Life, RealNo student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Tags: Artist, History, MoralRome was great in arms, in government, in law.
Tags: Government, Great, LawThe materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
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