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id: 14706
title: Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/7/0/14706/14706-h/14706-h.htm) (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/7/0/14706/14706-h.zip) Literature And Art For Old Gentlemen We were two hearts with single hope, The little things that none but I And, since with age we''re growing bald, Learning we knew; but still to-day, The old world glows with colours clear; A little friend to tea. I love to see the little stars The Elephant has got my nose, Where, in strange darkness rolled, The end of my own nose becomes A lovely legend old. A more well-meaning Pirate, The rain was pouring long and loud, "How sad," he said, and dropped a tear But yet he never loved the ship; We aged ones play solemn parts-Each toil in turn was done; I formed my uncle''s character, I lean to that opinion). The sea had nothing but a mood The sun had read a little book But one thing moved: a little child The simple love of sun and moon,


id: 19535
title: George Bernard Shaw
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would which the French Revolution involved morality." Now a man like Mr. Shaw, The only person, indeed, of whose approval I feel fairly certain is Mr. Bernard Shaw himself, the man of many introductions. and most obvious reason is the mere statement that George Bernard Shaw the most real of Mr. Bernard Shaw''s plays, _John Bull''s Other Island_. time I may be permitted to confess that Bernard Shaw was, like other more the things of a great man than the hard, gem-like brilliancy of A paradoxical writer like Bernard Shaw is Shaw''s plays (except of course such things as _How he Lied to her People have talked far too much about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. to suggest that Shaw desires man to be a mere animal. the first great turning-point in Shaw''s life (after the early things of


id: 20897
title: A Short History of England
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who things to teach English History to the masses; and in this I came upon a merely, as modern wits would say, of men behaving like beasts. literally like men running with good news. by men as a witness to the futility of merely pagan power; as the king England, like every Christian thing, It is far wiser for a modern man to read the Middle Ages I think, decisive day in English history, his word sent four feudal councils with a thing like our House of Commons is as far-fetched as it The real English people, the men who work with their hands, lifted of her modern history, that one thing human imagination will always find least by this time the English, like the French, persecutors were many great and not a few good things.


id: 20058
title: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  "Lambert," said Auberon, "you are a great and good man, though I''m "Right," said the King, nodding a great number of times with quite hearthstones, my Lord Buck," said Provost Wayne. "Notting Hill," said the Provost, simply, "is a rise or high ground of Barker always felt so when the King said, "Why trouble about "My Lord Provost of South Kensington," said King Auberon, steadily, "I "Well?" said Wilson, turning round to Barker--"well?" "Do you know, Mr. Buck," said the King, staring gloomily at the table, "Buck, you are a great man!" cried Barker, rising also. WAYNE SAID TO BE IN PUMP STREET. "I know my Wayne very well," said Buck, laughing. "The King must have had something to do with this humour," said Buck, "I am delighted to see you again, Barker," said the King. Just as Buck ran up, a man of Notting Hill struck Barker down,


id: 19094
title: Magic A Fantastic Comedy
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  [_Laughing also._] By the way, you call it a conjuring trick that Yes; I think I know the sort of thing. Now the Duke thinks a conjurer would just meet to a table with the papers._] You know Mr. Carleon is coming this [_Turning to the other two._] My nephew, Dr. Grimthorpe, Morris, you know, Miss Carleon''s brother from America. believe in looking at both sides of a question, you know. comes nearer and nearer, and_ SMITH _turns suddenly to the_ DOCTOR. I should know he was a wizard if he played no tricks. The whole point of being a conjurer is that you won''t explain a thing [_Thinking._] Yes, you did tell me a great deal of the truth. I would like to have those old conjurers here that called these modern conjuring tricks are simply the old miracles when they have I suppose you know there are things men never tell to women.


id: 27250
title: What I Saw in America
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  American Constitution is a thing like the Spanish Inquisition. thing unless you think it out.'' It is not to deny that American Ireland Irish; the great mass of men taking certain national traditions In other words, the democratic ideal of countries like America, know a little about journalism, American and English, would have That sort of thing is the bad side of American literature; but I think few Americans realise how much English children situation like that of modern America, and especially the Middle West. American citizens do at least so far love freedom as to like to have difference in the conversation of American and English business men arises, I think, from certain much deeper things in the American which of New York, which is by no means the same thing as America, is that of so national as humour; and many things, like many people, can be


id: 31184
title: Poems
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  God and the good Republic come riding back in arms: That men have found a thing to love. There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared, The hidden room in man''s house where God sits all the year, A sword is still at my side, but I shall not ride with the King. The stars swing round us like a sun. Home shall men come, And if our hands are glad, O God, to cast them down like flowers, Said the Lord God, "Build a house, Said the Lord God, "Build a house, Said the Lord God, "Build a house, A star that o''er the citied world beckoned, a sword of flame; That great green sunset God shall make three days after I die. Whose end shall no man know-To-night I die the death of God; the stars shall die with me:


id: 22362
title: Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  caricatures of Dickens remain like things carved in stone. important work of Dickens, that excellent book _Our Mutual Friend_, what a man looks like at first sight--and he simply felt the two things exaggerations of Dickens (as was admirably pointed out by my old friend near to contending that _Little Dorrit_ is Dickens''s best book. Dickens showed himself to be an original man by always accepting old and The last thing to say about Dickens, and especially about books In all the Dickens novels can be seen, so to speak, the original thing The business of a good man in Dickens''s time was to bring And Dickens, through being a living and fighting man of his own time, The time will soon come when the mere common-sense of Dickens, like the Dickens, are the things which would naturally please a man like George Dickens is the old self-made man;


id: 25795
title: Lord Kitchener
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  incident--the fact that Kitchener was a French soldier almost before Long before his end he had been in touch with Kitchener, Kitchener, the making of a new Egyptian army, was soon seen in the left by the last war of Kitchener before the greatest. In his new work he was not only a very great man, but Kitchener, like other Englishmen of his type, made his name outside of Kitchener, the new militarism of England came wholly and freely It is of the nature of national heroes of Kitchener''s type that their Now too much of the eulogy on a man like Kitchener tended to Lord Kitchener was personally a somewhat silent man; and his social change that has passed over the English traditions about Russia. man, and by the time of the Great War he was already an elderly a great people, long hidden from the English by accidents and by lies,


id: 13468
title: The New Jerusalem
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  the man of the desert, is intelligent enough to believe in God. But his belief is lacking in that humane complexity that comes Such a system of walls and gates, like many other things thought rude of worship in a place like Jerusalem, do not know how to discover the English can do are more real things, like clearing away the snow; Now in all this the Moslems of a place like Jerusalem are the very Jerusalem are by far the greatest things that the world has yet seen. of modern complaint that in a place like Jerusalem the Christian It is the thing we feel in the Arabian tales, when no man knows and not merely a thought; a thing like a post or a palm-tree. man saying that Christ is only a thing like Atys or Mithras, of the way in which things we have all heard of, like church-going


id: 14203
title: Varied Types
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  not occur to a man''s mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that of the earth, the real record of men''s feeling for things. There are two main moral necessities for the work of a great man: the who asserts that man, as a fact of natural history, is a creature with his soul may be in rags, every man of Scott can speak like a king. great man of old time our inventions and appliances have not the So it has been with all the very great men of the world. know by that alone that he was a man of almost immeasurable greatness. Great things like Christianity or Platonism have never in modern life is the struggle between the man like Maeterlinck, who things less of a practical man he is also less of a poet. any other man the sense of the poetry of the ancient things, the sword,


id: 1718
title: Manalive
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  "Inglewood," said Michael Moon, with his blue eye on the bird, "Inglewood," said Michael Moon, "have you ever heard that I "I know that desert island," said Michael Moon; "it only "Really," said Rosamund to Michael Moon, "he ought to be sent to an asylum. She found Michael Moon standing under the garden tree, looking over But to young men ignorant of women, like Arthur Inglewood, to see Diana Duke "Let''s take hands and tell him," said Michael Moon. "I think," said Inglewood, "that Smith is not extraordinary at all. "I will tell you the truth about Innocent Smith," said Michael Moon in a and Innocent Smith came round the corner like a railway train. the face of the little man behind was more like a death''s head. "To begin with," he said, "this man Smith is constantly attempting murder. "''I''ll help you out of your hole, old man,'' said Smith,


id: 1720
title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  "I saw some queer-looking people leaving as I came in," said Sir "Well, it''s a man," said Horne Fisher. "It means," said Fisher, "that this man, Hooker Wilson, as soon as Horne Fisher looked at the young man with a baffling expression. "Do you think England is so little as all that?" said Fisher, with a "Well, I wonder," said Horne Fisher, looking sleepily at the island Fisher looked at the young man steadily for a moment; then he "I know too much," said Horne Fisher, "and all the wrong things." "I''ve seen a good many things in my time," said the old man, in his said Fisher, "but I am an entirely new kind of public man who says "I think I do," said Horne Fisher, "and before I go on to more "You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also


id: 1719
title: The Ballad of the White Horse
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  "The wise men know all evil things Like a high tide from sea. The King went gathering Wessex men, The King went gathering Christian men, "Come not to me, King Alfred, Save always for the ale: Like a little word come I; His fruit trees stood like soldiers King Alfred stood and said: And the man was come like a shadow, They roared like the great green sea; Till the world was like a sea of tears Shall stand up like a tower, Yet by God''s death the stars shall stand King Alfred was but a meagre man, Till God shall turn the world over "But some see God like Guthrum, But I see God like a good giant, Came like a bad king''s burial-end, Shall slide like landslips to the sea Was a great light like death, "The high tide!" King Alfred cried. That bore King Alfred''s battle-sword


id: 130
title: Orthodoxy
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. tale discusses what a sane man will do in a mad world. kindly world all round the man has been blackened out like a lie; especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time. (helping to rule the tribe) is a thing like falling in love, The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly But if Christianity was, as these people said, a thing purely that Christianity was an attempt to make a man too like a sheep. think of it) Christianity is the only thing left that has any real is the fall of man, for the Christian it is the purpose of God, So Christian morals have always said to the man, of men, looking for the thing that I like and think good.


id: 470
title: Heretics
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still happy people, plenty of examples of men acting wisely and things ending modern man says, "Let us leave all these arbitrary standards and There is another man in the modern world who might be called the human soul, which is the first thing a man learns about, but with some It is a good thing for a man to live in a family for the same reason that it is a good thing for a man to be It is a good thing for a man to live in a family in Thus a man, like many men of real culture in our great man is equal with other men, like Shakespeare. great man is on his knees to other men, like Whitman. great man is superior to other men, like Whistler. But men trust a great man


id: 12491
title: Twelve Types
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  not occur to a man''s mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that moral truth as the old story, existing in many forms, of Beauty and the the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its A man like Morris draws attention to thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Asceticism is a thing which in its very nature, we tend in these days to There are two main moral necessities for the work of a great man: the human spirituality in which Carlyle believed that a man should be owned who asserts that man, as a fact of natural history, is a creature with The religion of Christ has, like many true things, been disproved an Walter Scott is a great, and, therefore, mysterious man. his soul may be in rags, every man of Scott can speak like a king.


id: 11560
title: The Barbarism of Berlin
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  July 28: Germany annexes Belgium, England declares war. July 29: Germany promises not to annex France, England withdraws from the July 30: Germany annexes France, England declares war. the opportunity to defend them; or, in other words, of course England, like In mere fact, the Germanic shall understand why England and France prefer Russia; and consider Prussia I do most heartily) that the German Emperor is a barbarian, I am not merely If the German calls the Russian barbarous, he presumably means imperfectly Now we, the French and English, do not mean this when we call the Prussians open War. Even savages promise things; and respect those who keep their example, can legitimately be called a barbaric thing; but the word is the word which is translated from the German as "honour," must really mean But the difference between the Germans and the English goes


id: 11554
title: The Crimes of England
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  Fear--German Influence in England since Germanic Powers have sacrificed a great deal of "red fluid" in defence make, until English people began to think there was nothing wrong with of the Seven Years'' War men knew as little how he was to be turned out We have thus to refer the origins of the German influence in England German court prepared the soil, so to speak; English politics were in the King of England; in the narrow and petty German prince who was to the effect on the England of that time of the Alliance with Germany. great men of such a potential democratic England, the answer is that the large things, the Germanic body called the Bund and the Austrian Empire. choice of that great people for peace or war, might very well be called, dead letter in France but has been, in the German sense, a great success


id: 11605
title: The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  war of human history, it is easy to answer the question of why England came opportunity to defend them: or, in other words, of course England, like In mere fact, the Germanic power understand why England and France prefer Russia; and consider Prussia the If the German calls the Russian barbarous he presumably means imperfectly Now we, the French and English, do not mean this when we call the Prussians example, can legitimately be called a barbaric thing; but the word is here but in Prussian Germany is any theory of honour mixed up with such things; Prussian calls all men to admire the beauty of his large blue eyes. Harnack knows what a German is like. Germans and the English goes deeper than all these signs of it; they differ case here considered, the German thinks that it is not only his business to


id: 11505
title: All Things Considered
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  man is in love with a woman he takes special pleasure in the fact that a The canvasser, when he wants to know a man''s opinions, goes and asks sunk into every man''s mind the notion that it was a natural thing for me curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really remains a mere mistake of fact, like that of a man who thinks he like all other things, especially modern, are insanely individualistic. Suppose a man tried to find people in London by the names of the places. These people seem to think that the ordinary man is a Cabinet Minister. there are some things that a man or a woman, as the case may be, wishes whole columns of the things without knowing what the people were talking And if goodness only exists in certain human minds, a man wishing to


id: 12245
title: The Defendant
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  and no man ever can, create or desire to make a bad thing good or an the mind and eyes of the average man this world is as lost as Eden and strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, bad are not called good by any people who experience them; but things Let me explain a little: Certain things are bad so far as they go, such regard a tree as an obvious thing, naturally and reasonably created for happily that no man knows: whether the world is old or young. There are some things of which the world does not like to be reminded, men--the feeling that this planet is like a new house into which we have lived in a world of fact, and that if a man married within the degrees thing in their lives, we, who are--the world being judge--humane,


id: 12037
title: The Wild Knight and Other Poems
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  Shall heaven and earth hear one cry sent On the secret face of God. Blow the trumpets, crown the sages, Shall I not cry the truth?''--the dead man cowered-By God I was a better man than This God gives this strange strength to a man. In heaven I shall stand on gold and glass, Has suns and stars of green and gold and red, The good green earth he loved and trod I saw an old man like a child, I loved the man I saw to-day Slowly upon the face of God did come I only know the praises to heaven that one man gave, That I dread lest God should drop it, to be dashed into stars below. And the brown bird stirred in the dead man''s hair, They saw, like gods, no law above their heads. I am God, and crown myself with stars.


id: 13342
title: Robert Browning
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  On the subject of Browning''s work innumerable things have been said We do not want to know about a man like Browning, whether The real truth about Browning and men like him can scarcely be Browning, was a man of great delicacy of taste, and to all appearance Browning will appear to be almost the least educated man in English there was in the nature of things between the generation of Browning stature seems to have come into Browning''s life about this time, a man things to notice about Robert Browning is the fact that he did this The truth was that Browning had a great many admirably Browning for some five or six years, and the great epic appeared in might have been expected of a man of Browning''s great imaginative A man might read those two poems a great many times without happening Browning believed that to every man that ever lived


id: 35115
title: Wine, Water, and Song
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  exception of "The Good Rich Man" and "The Song of the Strange Ascetic," WINE, WATER, AND SONG WINE, WATER, AND SONG The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think, But I don''t care where the water goes if it doesn''t get into the wine. But I don''t care where the water goes if it doesn''t get into the wine. The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which, For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, "Why shouldn''t I have a purely vegetarian drink? ought obviously to stick to wine or beer, plain vegetarian drinks, Where we shall never drink wine again, But a lady stole it from me on St. Barnabas''s Eve. The Song of the Oak And I would drink the wine;


