Canute : (c.995-1035), king of England, Denmark & Norway.
... in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world spontaneity and supremacy of utterance; but it cannot be helped, we cannot command the tide to roll back, Canute-like. The feature has to be accepted and a remedy and new orientation discovered. The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism ...
... and not foreign to English words. Even if the inspiration were - entirely new, the English language by its multifariousness would prove competent to assimilate and convey it. Nowhere can we play Canute to such a language: "Thus far and no further." When, on the contrary, we see that the quick manifold suggestion, either delicate or powerful, which is mystically and spiritually the most desirable ...
... What the Moderate leaders ask is that the immense revolution which has begun in India, shall ask for their permission before it chooses its course or rolls forward to its great goal. Like so many Canutes they set their chairs, Presidential or other, on the margin of the tide of Nationalism and looking over the stormy waters command them to respect their thrones and stay the upsurging wrath of their ...
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