I grant you that as a long-winded, one-eyed gentleman backing a certain champion in a fight and henpecked out of his fancy because his wife objects to the moral character of the champion, he is a dreary person indeed. 'Would 'twere over!' Now, I am one of those elect souls who are deeply moved by Wotan. For them the ordinary playgoer endures hours of Wotan, with Christopher Sly's prayer in his heart. These are the love duet in the first act, Brunnhilde's announcement of death in the second, the ride of the Valkyries and the 'fire-charm' in the third. Die Walküre is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon, or even a House of Commons debate.Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895.My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."The Living Pictures", The Saturday Review, LXXIX (April 6, 1895), 443, reprinted in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932).But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894 being criticisms contributed week by week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973).Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.'The Impossibilities of Anarchism', a paper read to the Fabian Society on 16 October 1891, reprinted in The Impossibilities of Anarchism (Fabian tract no.They distrust State action, and are jealous advocates of the prerogative of the individual, proposing to restrict the one and to extend the other as far as is humanly possible, in opposition to the Social-Democrat, who proposes to democratize the State and throw upon it the whole work of organizing the national industry, thereby making it the most vital organ in the social body. Leonard Courtney: any of these is, in England, a more typical Anarchist than Bakounin.
The old Whigs and new Tories of the school of Cobden and Bright, the " Philosophic Radicals," the economists of whom Bastiat is the type, Lord Wemyss and Lord Bramwell, Mr.Statue of Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake 1890s
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