| 单词 | sweetness and light |
| 例句 | “He’s got an eleven-thousand-mile buffer zone from all this sweetness and light.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, those would work. Let’s imagine another world, a different one again, where there are bees but no people. Would there still be a connection between a beehive and sweetness and light?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Jethro was not yet in any mood approaching perfect sweetness and light. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that the words of the two cantatas were sweetness and light. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z But Gaga hasn’t turned to all sweetness and light. 10 Questions With Lady Gaga 2012-03-01T17:43:05Z The sun shines all sweetness and light, burn us to a cinder, our third stone satellite ' for anyone who doubts that Squire was a lyricist to be very very proud of! Fans hail Stone Roses comeback 2012-05-24T10:52:52Z It is a powerfully conflicted picture, a black hole of ominous and disturbing proportions framed in an innocuous image of sweetness and light. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Only Dzhokhar, she adds, “was still in his cloud of sweetness and light,” continuing in high school to “make good grades and good friends and make everyone happy.” Review: ‘The Brothers’ and the Boston Marathon Bombing 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z There never was an abundance of sweetness and light in the Norse myths. The best audiobooks of March 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z When director Spike Jonez made the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are," Sendak said he urged the director to remember his view that childhood isn't all sweetness and light. 'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies 2012-05-08T13:08:48Z When director Spike Jonez made the movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Sendak said he urged the director to remember his view that childhood isn’t all sweetness and light. Where the Wild Things Are Author Maurice Sendak Dies 2012-05-08T12:50:11Z But it's not all been sweetness and light at the stately home. Daisy scrubs up for Christmas Downton 2013-12-19T08:22:32Z Home to the sweetness and light associated with Mozart, Salzburg on Sunday was in the grip of a darker and grimmer genre of opera. Strauss' Elektra at Salzburg darkly brilliant 2010-08-09T00:46:00Z But not all earlier shows insisted on sweetness and light. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z Today, Arnold’s vision of culture as “sweetness and light” is often mocked as elitist hokum. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The work's clever layering of aggressive and comic dance contrasts with the sweetness and light of Mark Godden's Angels In The Architecture. This week's new dance 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z By comparison with the rest of the evening, it felt like sweetness and light. Philharmonia/Salonen - review 2011-01-17T22:15:00Z There are people who believe that their Sony-Ericsson scarab not only spreads sweetness and light, but can also cure chilblains. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z The film isn't all sweetness and light, however, and it doesn't hide Helm's bitterness about The Band's eventual breakup and legacy, and his falling out with Robbie Robertson. One year after death, music legend Levon Helm returns in documentary 2013-04-18T13:22:19Z If you're going to spend the romantic holiday weekend with her, don't expect sweetness and light. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z “We all imagine it being sort of sweetness and light, and we’ve all seen ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and everyone’s sitting around drinking. ‘The Crown’ returns to blur the line between royals, fiction 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z “Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris” is all sweetness and light. ‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’ review: Lesley Manville charms in this airy trip to the City of Light 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Her extensive qualifications notwithstanding, we should not expect her confirmation process to be all sweetness and light. Column: The consequential — and inconsequential — nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Incidentally, just as with matters of the heart, not all floral messages are sweetness and light. ‘The Posy Book’ puts together meaningful floral arrangements that speak for you 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Though Arnold would disagree, high culture does not have a monopoly on sweetness and light. Column: It's the end time for Trumptimes, and never a better time to trade real culture for politics 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z To be sure, all is not sweetness and light. Opinion | Is Europe finally coming together? 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z He’s Walter Beckett, the movie’s equivalent of Q, a kid genius, maker of myriad gizmos designed to defeat baddies with, well, sweetness and light. ‘Spies in Disguise’ review: Will Smith goes into 007 mode for this lively, sweet animated comedy 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “All About Nina”: Not all rom-coms need to be full of sweetness and light. Under the Radar: Young knees, empathy and how about some Oscar love for female filmmakers? 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z On Capitol Hill, Ms. Klobuchar’s reputation is not all sweetness and light; she is said to be brutal to work for. Amy Klobuchar Is ‘Minnesota Nice.’ But Is That What Democrats Want for 2020? 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z With Liverpool pushed into second place on goal difference, all was sweetness and light in west London. Chelsea go top after Eden Hazard’s irrepressible hat-trick sees off Cardiff 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Also unwelcome would be the public tongue-lashings Mr Xi might face from an American president who is currently all sweetness and light in his personal expressions towards China’s leader. In its trade war with America, China dials down the hype 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It would be easy to get away with a sense of Laura Linney as all sweetness and light – but she is, I think, complicatedly earthed. Laura Linney on making her British stage debut 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z “If the Republican Party on Capitol Hill gets behind the president on his plans and not theirs, it will all be sweetness and light, be one big happy family,” Bannon said. Bannon’s departure is unlikely to calm the turmoil in Trump’s White House 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Arriving to play up to that sweetness and light for Saturday headlining duties is Warpaint, the LA group with a neat line in pleasantly dissonant post-punk. Glastonbury 2017: Sunday with Barry Gibb, Chic and Laura Marling – follow it live! 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z So might it be sweetness and light in the relationship between two leaders who are outspoken and upfront? How might Donald Trump deal with North Korea's Kim Jong-un? - BBC News 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But from April this year suddenly all was sweetness and light, and the two men began appearing in public together, along with their wives. The trap is laid 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z All is not sweetness and light, of course. Obama has plenty of reasons to smile 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The conventional wisdom in the West is that you let a hundred flowers bloom and everything will be happiness and sweetness and light. Interview: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z In a letter to staff posted on the bank’s website, he said: “I am not going to tell you that all will be sweetness and light in the coming months.” Deutsche Bank’s New co-CEO Delays Strategy Update 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z So far as Mr Sam Rainsy is concerned, there is now sweetness and light. The faithful couple 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Although the House leadership maintained that all was sweetness and light, reporters heard rumblings Wednesday that the bill was in trouble with moderate Republicans, especially women. What is the GOP thinking? 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But it’s apparent things are not all sweetness and light in Salt Lake City, as these two pieces indicate in the Salt Lake Tribune. Upheaval at Utah? Discord between Whittingham, AD Hill 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the survey is a powerful reminder that the Panglossian scenarios about the sweetness and light that will inevitably prevail after 18 September may prove to be extremely naive. Yes or no, things could get nasty after the Scottish referendum 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z But all is not sweetness and light in Cambridge. Is Cambridge the template for the UK economy? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Some took to Twitter on Monday evening to praise their Labour hosts, but it seems not everything was sweetness and light. Deputy speaker race: Best of seven 2013-10-15T21:28:18Z Don’t play Pollyanna and pretend that everything is sweetness and light. 5 Ways To Keep It Real At Work 2013-09-30T19:51:00Z A trust he set up to benefit the town called on the trustees, in the parlance of the time, to "bring sweetness and light to the toiling masses". Rags to riches to philanthropy 2013-04-22T08:29:49Z Don’t expect any sweetness and light in Dark Souls 2 – death is round every corner. Dark Souls 2 – preview 2013-04-12T07:25:00Z After all, it's easy to manage a business or do a job when everything's all sweetness and light. Feeling Negative? How to Overcome It 2012-11-26T14:50:00Z As it happens, the Usher anecdote provides a good prism through which to appraise Franklin the competitor: all sweetness and light on the deck, a heat-seeking missile in the water. Missy Franklin: the first woman to swim in seven events in one Games 2012-07-18T13:00:01Z It wasn't all sweetness and light at the Stobart on Sunday, however. Super League Set of Six: Wigan and Sam Tomkins – simply irresistible 2012-06-05T08:01:01Z In the Dublin sunshine, sweetness and light prevailed and, in contrast to England, Euro fever has gripped. Robbie Keane makes rocky road to Poland seem less daunting for Irish 2012-05-25T20:02:44Z And then a few moments later, Calipari told a story that reminded the rest of us that like Self, he paid his dues, that not everything in his career was always sweetness and light. Column: Jedi knight vs. Darth Vader? Not exactly. 2012-04-02T08:19:09Z Not for to-day only do we pray for sweetness and light, but let us be glad and happy every day. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z These brought additional "sweetness and light" into the beautiful home. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z There, alas! the ferrel of his stick came to the ground with a thud, and the sweetness and light faded from his eyes as they rested upon Mr. Swainson's plot. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z One does not expect "sweetness and light," concerning the absence of which complaint is made, in a seaport devoted to fishing-boats and passenger traffic. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z All sweetness and light; can't be too particular about telling me how good I am at French, and that sort of thing. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z If you look at what’s happening in Egypt now, regular people saw this as sort of a sweetness and light revolution. Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Talks Libya, China and the Future of American Influence 2011-10-27T06:20:00Z The phrase "sweetness and light" was made familiar by him. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Well, let us look at the example given by a London leader of fashion and politics as she goes down at election time to shed sweetness and light around her in Poplar or Shoreditch. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z One minute it was all sweetness and light, hope and change, kids with shiny new jerseys. Leading Off: The Great Unknowns 2011-06-24T16:51:01Z Lucinda tried to forget her vexation in watching the faces of their fellow dancers and their styles, a diversion which seldom failed to flood her being, even when she was saddest, with sweetness and light. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Hardly fighting talk but an unusual admission that not all was sweetness and light. The OPEC meeting: Drill will 2011-06-09T11:07:17Z Atmospherically speaking, the Black Hole of Calcutta was a thing of sweetness and light compared to it. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z Not everything is sweetness and light, of course. The Caucus: Obama Embraces His Opponents 2011-03-15T19:15:16Z All I have to say," said Elizabeth, "is that if I had been brought up in this lax way I wouldn't be the example of sweetness and light I am now. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z But the President wasn't all sweetness and light. Obama Continues Battle with Chamber of Commerce 2011-02-07T17:20:00Z Whether memories of sweetness and light were failing him or not, those of bitterness and gall remained, and it was on this quivering complexity of exposed nerves that I had laid the lash. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z For Roberts, now back in the starting line‑up after months of making his unhappiness clear from the sidelines, life was once again sweetness and light. Sam Allardyce hails 'entertaining' Blackburn after gifts from Wolves 2010-12-06T07:01:00Z How long the sweetness and light will last is another matter. NATO after the summit: Harmony—for now 2010-11-25T10:47:00Z It’s not as if all were sweetness and light around here. Our Towns: Diverse and Divided, but Praying as One 2010-11-22T06:00:00Z But if you think all is sweetness and light in the season of feel-good outdoor events, think again. Our Towns: A Hudson River Bike Ride, Under a Legal Cloud 2010-04-08T01:03:00Z Let not our thinking conjure false sweetness and light. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Stuyvesant Square and its immediate belongings around St. George’s Church still survive as an oasis of sweetness and light in a wilderness of dismal commonplace. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 What a sweet word that is, since it can turn to sweetness and light such an awful position as that in which we now are. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance We wish to "develop our resources"; and as rapidly as possible, for in that lies all blessedness—real "sweetness and light." The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Well, he had tossed a monkey wrench into the machinery of interplanetary sweetness and light, he thought. The Ambassador She looked like an angel of sweetness and light, and I reproached myself bitterly because I had half suspected her of mercenary plans. The Brightener What you say is all too true," says Dulce, calmly; then, with most suspicious gentleness, and a smile that is all "sweetness and light," "would you mind removing your arm from my waist. Portia or By Passions Rocked You can't think how unbecoming frowns are, and how much better you look when you are all 'sweetness and light' as now for example. Rossmoyne The old system, in short, believed in harshness and darkness; the creed of the new is, "I believe in sweetness and light." Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles They can only be solved by discussion and argument, by persuasion and conversion, by the spread of education, by clear thinking and strenuous working, by the diffusion of sweetness and light. German Problems and Personalities He is an altruist who refrains from devoting himself to one woman in order that he may scatter sweetness and light amongst the multitude. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl New principles were evoked, and the artist, while revelling in the “sweetness and light” of freedom, framed for himself standards of taste and refinement, which he left as a heritage to all succeeding generations. Needlework As Art The kind, although perfect, may be a low kind, and Swift's style wants the 'sweetness and light,' to quote a phrase of his own, which distinguish our greatest prose writers. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) As usual also, his tone is pretty short on sweetness and light, and I do not see why Grogan, who looks something like a gorilla's mother-in-law, takes such guff from a beanpole like Frankie. The Flying Cuspidors On another page: "Matthew Arnold himself often wanting in sweetness and light." War Letters of a Public-School Boy And every chink in my terrace walls seems to breathe a message of sweetness and light and love. The Book of Khalid He had a sense of sweetness and light, followed by a reaction of pain. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The human flowers around the table against such a background of "sweetness and light" made the scene one to be remembered. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Another summer would bring Mrs. Beaton and her son into that pastoral country, just to refresh themselves with a glimpse of its sweetness and light. A Vanished Hand The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The third part treats of lunar superstitions, many of which yet live in the vagaries which sour and shade our modern sweetness and light. Moon Lore Even the most ardent of worshippers at such a shrine must, one would think, desire in their deity a little more sweetness and light. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He had come to the frontier to teach it the error of its ways and bring a message of sweetness and light to the unwashed barbarians of the Rockies. The Fighting Edge Especially out in the West, men's dealings do not yet betray too much of the "sweetness and light" which we are told distinguish the cultured man from the barbarian. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 I mean to help people who have no sweetness and light in their lives.” Patty's Success The day is dark and gloomy, yet once within the halls of Blank there is sweetness and light. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The war was not an era of sweetness and light. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 Anger blazed in her eyes for a second, then that faded, and she tried to look all sweetness and light. A Spaceship Named McGuire She was sweetness and light among criminals who respectfully did not harm her, and she sweetened and lightened the atmosphere of the space yacht until Hoddan's followers were close to mutiny. The Pirates of Ersatz Because they humanized knowledge; because they broadened the basis of life and intelligence; because they worked powerfully to diffuse the sweetness and light, to make reason and the will of God prevail. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV The Punch and Judy show is sweetness and light by comparison. Nights in London I was sweetness and light because a lot depended on his decision. The Misplaced Battleship They were puffed up with eloquence and philosophic speculation, and forgot that there is no "sweetness and light" comparable to the Gospel. The Books of the New Testament Matthew Arnold was captivated by the simile of light, and having repeated Amiel's passionate cry for "more light," used "sweetness and light" as a refrain in all his criticism. Personality in Literature Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred, culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV It should be the place of "sweetness and light," and every member may do something to make it so. Life and Conduct There is nothing on earth that will so slake the thirst of the soul as the beauty which expresses itself in sweetness and light. Pushing to the Front Well, don't you put on any more sweetness and light when you get engaged. Patty Blossom Then we should have no need to be told to cultivate sweetness and light, for they would seem to us the only temper which could make life tolerable in any corner of the universe. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife These gifts may add patience and love, sweetness and light, to the zeal of the reformer and yet not dull his ardor for the next morning-hour of progress. The Family and it's Members In short, taking his works through and through, Mozart was what, in the words of Mr. Matthew Arnold, we might call the composer of "sweetness and light." A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present If you radiate sweetness and light, people will love to get near you, for we are all looking for the sunlight, trying to get away from the shadows. Pushing to the Front "Yes, but she has so much more—er—sweetness and light." Patty Blossom Such young German missionaries year after year, as I have indicated, would be bringing back something of sweetness and light to their stubborn, irascible folk. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The moment of its flight was full of sweetness and light for the bird, but it was brief. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry In Germany there are more men of culture per thousand of the population than in any other land, but they rule the country not by “sweetness and light,” but by force. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View All who loved human poetry, the poetry of sweetness and light, took Sully-Prudhomme to their heart of hearts. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters We pride ourselves these days on our "sweetness and light," on our culture and manners. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Imagine Matthew Arnold, the apostle of sweetness and light, introducing Josh Billings, the foremost of jesters, to a select London audience. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie The illumining smile still flashed out at times, and filled all his countenance with sweetness and light—but it was rarer than formerly. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Matthew Arnold said that mere knowledge is cold as an icicle, but once experienced and touched with noble feelings truth becomes sweetness and light. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service She carries about with her an atmosphere of sweetness and light. The Young Man and the World Scratch a child of sweetness and light on Beacon Hill to-day and you will find a Puritan. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z They talked on for half an hour, and with every moment he discovered fresh qualities of sweetness and light in her gentle heart. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story But 'sweetness and light' are precious and inspiring only so far as they express the essential sweetness of the disposition of the thinker, and the essential illuminating power of his intelligence. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Souls full of sweetness and light fill the divine portrait with the lineaments of love. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Suddenly Elsa appears on the balcony, and the character of the music changes at once: all now is sweetness and light. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Literature and science, sweetness and light, beauty and truth, these are the heritage of the modern world; and unless these permeate its very being, society must undergo degeneration. An Introduction to Philosophy But as the drive went on that gentle something that seemed to emanate from Theodora, the something of pure sweetness and light, affected her, too, as it affected other people. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story To 'sweetness and light' he therefore added the prime quality of fearless manliness. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson In picturing forth these conceptions of sweetness and light, philosophers have found it hard to summarize the qualities that make up ideal manhood. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Now it was the latter qualities that Mr Arnold wanted; sweetness and light he could not want. Matthew Arnold It was the politics of the fireside, of sweetness and light, of justice and truth, of humanity and God. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Thinks he's a grand little booster for righteousness, sweetness and light, and all that. Success A Novel Archæologists and philosophers, novelists and divines, apostles of sweetness and light, and star actors, are accustomed thus to favor the public with volumes which the public could very often be well content to spare. Mary Anderson Chug Scaritt, had he cared to open his lips and speak, might have poured forth such chronicles as to make Spoon River sound a pæan of sweetness and light. Half Portions And this sweetness and light may be reached when we discover the iron bar and raising it shall permit the heart to be free. Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold He was particularly interested in the "Sunshine Column," which dispensed sweetness and light under a poetic caption too beautiful to be true in a coldly humorous world. The Common Law "The pursuit of perfection," he said, "is the pursuit of sweetness and light." The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Eye strain played hob with the happiness of Carlyle, and an apostle of sweetness and light declared that Ibsen was a "degenerate"—Ibsen, who led the humdrum exterior life of a healthy bourgeois. Promenades of an Impressionist Strange and wicked and wild that is from the grand ducal point of view, for to Priscilla they seemed all sweetness and light. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight The author here wishes to show that there is sweetness and light in occultism, and not merely a wide dry level of dreadful Karma, such as some Theosophists are prone to dwell on. Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold The safety-lamp was then only an unspoken word, and perhaps few foresaw the sweetness and light that these two men would yet give to earth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great "Culture hates hatred: culture has one great passion—the passion for sweetness and light." The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Openly professing sweetness and light, inwardly a scheming and destructive enemy. Sacred Books of the East The latter he gained especially through the crystallization of his thought into certain telling phrases, such as "Philistinism," "sweetness and light," "the grand style," etc. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold She brought sweetness and light into my life and into my dwelling. What I Remember, Volume 2 He sent me interesting literature relating to the efforts of well-placed men and women to carry into slums and hovels sweetness and light. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe We did not fight the Germans under the doctrine of sweetness and light. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson He is all sweetness and light, but has a deputy god, called Okeus. The Making of Religion In thus making sweetness and light to be characters of perfection, culture is of like spirit with poetry, follows one law with poetry. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Most of the letters written to me I destroyed long ago, but the feeling of sweetness and light with which some of them filled me can never be destroyed. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections On emerging from the violent struggles of the religious wars, the Catholic church had not lost her faith, but she had neglected sweetness and light. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 It is not religion only, but common sense which says that "sweetness and light," kindliness, indulgence, sympathy, are necessary for moral and spiritual health. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 Let us comply with the dictates of sweetness and light, in reasonable expectation that iniquity will melt away of itself, like a snail before the fire. Essays in Rebellion It is the temperament eternally boyish and buoyant, which is on the side of sweetness and light. Stories from Everybody's Magazine A little sad, but full of 'sweetness and light.' Authors and Friends He talks gold and stars and eternal gods, about sweetness and light and pure politics and reform, but he wants Passley Trimmer's machine to take him up. In the Arena Stories of Political Life Nevertheless, the sweetness and light of the prison dispensation as regarded myself did not blind my eyes or stop my ears to what was being done to others, not elected to dreams thus beautiful. The Subterranean Brotherhood It would have been strange indeed if, in such an atmosphere, I had not absorbed a little sweetness and light into my system. A Crystal Age But every attitude, gesture, tone, was full of grace; of ease, courtesy, self-restraint, dignity—of that ‘sweetness and light,’ at least in externals, which Mr. Matthew Arnold desiderates. At Last Until she spoke them, I had been all sweetness and light—the sympathetic nephew prepared to strain every nerve to do his bit. Right Ho, Jeeves He is represented as the incarnation of "sweetness and light." Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity You used to have a deal, too, before you took to being conscientiously cheerful, and diffusing sweetness and light among your cowering associates. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Thoreau and Ellery Channing were tramping about in the neighborhood, and Judge Hoar and his beautiful sister dispensed sweetness and light in the village itself. Hawthorne and His Circle But not so rich as Winchell Smith, who has dealt exclusively with sweetness and light. Nonsenseorship Did you see that monumental headline in the 'Daily Chronicle,' the paper that poses as the organ of sweetness and light?— Without Prejudice Are London and Paris, New York and St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, and Rome centres of holiness and of sweetness and light? God and my Neighbour Why should I be filled with fury and wickedness and she of whom I was born with sweetness and light? Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales In this town the talk was mostly about Art, and many fine things were said in regard to "sweetness and light." Dreams and Dream Stories His courage, far more than change of scene and climate, gave him fourteen more years in which to contribute to the sweetness and light of the world. The Sea Fogs Many a spiritual blind-alley has still to receive sunshine and air, "sweetness and light." Without Prejudice He might have required the aid of a black boy to navigate his boat, and the continual presence of a black boy in a small boat does not make for sweetness and light. Confessions of a Beachcomber After that, the pitbull agent was all sweetness and light with Par. Underground Egeria herself is certainly blameless in the matter: she diffuses sweetness and light in many tedious assemblies; she is true to her principles; but for all that I cannot agree with her on this point. From a College Window Academic sweetness and light was a feeble antidote to offer him. Thyrza But he who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. Culture and Anarchy I'm all for spreading sweetness and light, and cheering up the jolly old pater's sorrowful existence, but I haven't a bean. Indiscretions of Archie The fitness of the word; the rightness of the timing of it; the power and sweetness and light and glory that came with it also, were marvellous to me to find. Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] He diffused sweetness and light in an era marked by bitterness and obscuration. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters He was in his glory, all sweetness and light. Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! Because they humanised knowledge; because they broadened the basis of life and intelligence; because they worked powerfully to diffuse sweetness and light, to make reason and the will of God prevail. Culture and Anarchy "I don't mind telling you that, in the fullness of time, I believe this is going to spread a good deal of sweetness and light." Indiscretions of Archie It entertained many visitors, who invariably went away with their souls filled with ecstasy over the atmosphere of sweetness and light that pervaded the place. Michael, Brother of Jerry So far from it, that her whole demeanour and speech show culture of the very highest sort, full of "sweetness and light." Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc The phrase, "sweetness and light," is one which Aesop uses in Swift's Battle of the Books to sum up the superiority of the ancients over the moderns. Autobiography and Selected Essays Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has but one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy This was not conducive to sweetness and light, and we can well imagine how he ate his soul with bitterness during those dreary eight months. The Strength of the Strong Culture," says an acute, though somewhat rigid critic, Mr. Sidgwick, "diffuses sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy Here, indeed, is the answer to many criticisms which have been addressed to all that we have said in praise of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy What we want is a fuller harmonious development of our humanity, a free play of thought upon our routine notions, spontaneity of consciousness, sweetness and light; and these are just what culture generates and fosters. Culture and Anarchy It is by thus making sweetness and light to be characters of perfection, that culture is of like spirit with poetry, follows one law with poetry. Culture and Anarchy To say we work for sweetness and light, then, is only another way of saying that we work for Hellenism. Culture and Anarchy |
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