Pope : Alexander (1688-1744) was born in London, his education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which banned Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, or holding public office on pain of perpetual imprisonment. Taught to read by his aunt, he went to two Catholic schools in London which, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas. Pope educated himself mostly by reading Horace, Juvenal, Homer, Virgil, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, while he studied European languages & read English, French, Italian, Latin, & Greek poets. Among his famous friends at Binfield, was John Caryll, the future dedicatee of The Rape of the Lock, who was twenty years older & had many acquaintances in the London literary world. He introduced Pope to the playwright William Wycherley, & William Walsh who helped him revise his first major work, The Pastorals (see Essay on Criticism), & the Blount sisters, Teresa & Martha, who remained lifelong friends. Pope also made friends with Tory writers John Gay (see Shepherd’s Week), Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell & John Arbuthnot (see John Bull), who together formed the Scriblerus Club with the aim of satirising ignorance & pedantry in the form of the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus. He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison (q.v.) & Richard Steele (see Spectator & Tatler). Pope used language with genuine inventiveness. His qualities of imagination are seen in the originality with which he handled traditional forms, in his satiric vision of the contemporary world, & in his inspired use of classical models. Around 1719, he is said to have been employed by the publisher Jacob Tonson to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare. His friendship with the former statesman Henry St. John Bolingbroke, who had settled a few miles from Twickenham, stimulated his interest in philosophy & led to the composition of An Essay on Man. Some ideas expressed in it were probably suggested by Bolingbroke, e.g., earthly happiness is enough to justify the ways of God to man. In essence, the Essay is not philosophy but a poet’s belief of unity despite differences, of an order embracing the whole multifaceted creation. The most central of Pope’s ideas were the doctrine of plenitude, which Pope expressed through the metaphors of a “chain” or “scale” of being, & that the discordant parts of life are bound harmoniously together. Pope wrote Imitations of Horace from 1733 to 1738. He also wrote many epistles to friends, in defence of his use of personal & political satire. After he wrote the Universal Prayer in 1738, he concentrated on revising & expanding his masterpiece The Dunciad.
... Description The first to break away from Pope were Thomson & Dyer. The original departures made by their school were as follows. (1) In subject-matter an almost exclusive devotion of their poetry to the description of natural objects and natural scenery. In dealing with human emotion or human life they are generally even more incapable than the Pope school. 1 There is beside a tendency to force... those of the Pope school and the feeling that inspires their poetry, tho' not false, is not Page 138 very deep; Collins & Akenside are extremely cold compared with poets of other periods & Gray is rather enthusiastic or at his best sublime than impassioned. 3 (5) It was in the influences which governed their poetry that this school departed most radically from Pope. They rejected... Darwin. Johnson & Goldsmith returned to the ideals of Pope, they violently opposed & disparaged Gray, they kept to the use of the heroic couplet & conventional language, to the narrowness of culture and to the exclusion of all that does not square with or proceed from the reason & intellect; their characteristics are broadly the same as the Pope school's, but there is a difference which shows that the ...
... The country is 'born for the spirit'," the Pope said. All the same, it means he is receptive. And it explains the manner in which he received P. when he went there. P. ( an Indian disciple ), as you know, paid him a visit; he was taken there by an Italian who had come here (a very nice boy who showed him around Italy and took him to the Pope). The Pope gave Page 298 him a private... newspaper cutting to Satprem ). Page 297 Vatican City, September 26 The Pope, in an article published here last night, has said his journey to India in 1964 was "the revelation of an unknown world." The Osservatore Romano published in an article excerpts from a forthcoming book of conversations with the Pope by a lifelong friend, the French philosopher and academician, Jean Guitton. "I... indescribable sympathy," the Pope said. "India is a spiritual country. It has in its nature a sense of the 'Christian virtues'.... "Christians," he sees everything through his Christian word, but never mind. "If there is any country in which the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount could ever become a reality for the mass of the country, that country is India," Pope Paul added.... Can ...
... said, what can it be?... As for me, I had a strong, very strong impression that they wanted to get rid of him, in the sense that either it was the Pope who didn't want to hear him, or, more likely, it was his friend, Monsignor R., who didn't want the Pope to hear what he had to say. It's a very strong impression. I might put it this way: the impression I got, but a very strong one (very strong, it... "Speak only to the Pope and to no one else." And he spoke right and left. He spoke to Cardinal Tisserant, to this Monsignor R., so... ( silence ) They are so attached to their power that they are capable of reverting to their old ways—excommunication, inquisition and the rest—to prevent things from moving. That's what I feel. That's the terrible thing. Whereas the Pope, there was in him an... said, there "was" an effort... Yes, I am not sure they won't... ( Mother remains silent ) Page 123 Have you heard the rumor that the Pope was going to abdicate? A few days ago, newspapers reported a rumor according to which the Pope was going to abdicate. 1 There you are!... I didn't know. There has been a denial, but the rumor has been quite widespread. That's it. ...
... on this or that, I knew he was returning from Italy, where he had gone for the nomination of the new Pope. And he said something like: "It's the best that could be done under the present circumstances." That is, he appeared satisfied on the whole. I told you, didn't I, that I saw the death of Pope [John XXIII] without even knowing he was ill?... One night, I suddenly saw in Page 189 the... we'll see what happens. It seems Kennedy is Catholic. That is a serious matter. They say he was the first person the Pope saw after his... what's the word for Popes? Investiture? Page 190 I don't know. When he first appears in public: "Here is the Pope!" Anyhow, after the ceremony of investiture, he saw Mr. Kennedy: the first person. ( silence ) Catholicism has two... question, which she answers immediately: ) "Why isn't the universe a place of perfect bliss?" 1 Because it's progressive. There is no other reason. ( Then Mother speaks of the new Pope, Paul VI, who was elected a few days earlier: ) Sri Aurobindo seems to have taken interest in the Pope's successor... because two nights ago (not in the night, at four in the morning), I was with ...
... day to day." 19 Only his constant search for new frontiers can explain his decision to enter the service of the ruthless commander-in-chief of the Papal Army, Cesare Borgia, son of the notorious Pope Alexander VI. 20 Borgia was entrusted with the mission of gaining control of central Italy, and Leonardo stayed with him as his "military engineer" for almost one year. Besides military advice, he... Euclid and anticipating the quantification of natural philosophy by Galileo. When the French lost Milan in 1513, Leonardo, now sixty, again had to move. He left for Rome where the art-loving Pope Leo X (formerly Giovani di Medici) commissioned great works from Raphael, Michaelangelo, Bramante and Peruzzi. 22 He was entertained at the Belvedere, a summer palace atop the Vatican Hill, but ... Mona Lisa Virgin, Child and St. Ann Page 197 could not find the place he deserved as a master artist and received no large commission from the Pope. In fact, Leo X complained about him: "This man will never get anything done, for he is thinking about the end before he begins." 23 Thus, after three years of disappointment and loneliness in Rome ...
... the discrediting of some and the rehabilitation of the discredited. That happened to Pope and Dryden. Keats and his contemporaries broke their canons and trampled over their corpses to reach romantic freedom; now there is a rehabilitation. But all this is something of an illusion—for mark that even at the worst Pope and Dryden retained a place among the great names of English literature. No controversy... merit or special character of all he reads or sees in poetry and art, even when they do not evoke his strongest sympathy or deepest response . I have no temperamental sympathy for much of the work of Pope and Dryden, but I can see their extraordinary perfection or force in their own field, the masterly conciseness, energy, point, metallic precision into which they cut their thought or their verse ... merit or special character of all he reads or sees in poetry and art, even when they do not evoke his strongest sympathy or deepest response. I have no temperamental sympathy for much of the work of Pope and Dryden, but i can see their extraordinary perfection or force in their own field, the masterly conciseness, energy, point, metallic precision into which they cut their thought or their verse ...
... the Movement, without even knowing it. That's why I have kept this lady's letter. To come back to her Catholic preoccupation, there have been some really interesting things.... You know that the Pope, when he came here to Bombay, said things that I had told him like this ( gesture of inner communication ) when we had that conversation 2 (he certainly does not know with whom he had that conversation... officiating: he would face the deity and turn his back to the faithful (the original idea was certainly that he represented the faithful's aspiration and prayer: he addressed himself to the Divine). Now the Pope has said, Page 290 "Turn your altars around, face the public and represent the Divine." It's interesting.... They are doing it here now, and the comical part is that they've asked U. to... that"? When I read her letter and learned the whole story, as always I did like this ( gesture of immobile offering upward ), and then the TRUE thing came (not at all what she thinks or what the Pope thinks, but the TRUE thing): an essential unity that will manifest on earth, but not just for this particular religion—for ALL religions, all the religions that were manifestations of a ... (let us ...
... followed this strong beginning. Here all is unredeemed intellectuality and even the very first elements of the genuine poetic inspiration are for the most part, one might almost say, entirely absent. Pope and Dryden and their school, except now and then and as if by accident,—Dryden especially has lines sometimes in which he suddenly rises above his method,—are busy only with one aim, with thinking in... vigour and arrives at a brutal, but still a genuine and sometimes really poetic vigour and truth of expression. Energy and driving force, the English virtues, are, indeed, a general merit of the verse of Pope and Dryden and in this respect they excel their French exemplars. Their expression is striking in its precision; each couplet rings out with a remarkable force of finality and much coin of their minting... some work was done especially by Dryden which even on the higher levels of poetry can challenge comparison with the work of the Elizabethans and the greater poets of later times. Even the satire of Pope and Dryden rises sometimes into a high poetic value beyond the level they normally reached and they have some great outbursts which have the power not only to please or delight by their force and i ...
... it can be done Page 304 relatively quickly. That's what generally takes the greatest time. A little later: Have you seen the latest Illustrated Weekly ? You know that the Pope is here, in Bombay, for the "Eucharistic Congress"—but what's the Eucharist, mon petit? It's the Communion. Ah, that's just what I thought!... There is in the Illustrated Weekly the history... Congresses, and it seems a French lady was behind the origin of the first Congress (not so long ago, in the last century, I believe). And then ( Mother smiles ), there's a magnificent portrait of the Pope with a message he wrote specially for the Weekly's readers, in which he took great care not to use Christian words. He wishes them... I don't know what, and (it's written in English) a celestial... say I remember: if, for instance, I were asked whether they had nails on their fingers, that I wouldn't know! It was very supple and luminous. But anyway, they were like humans. ( silence ) The Pope announced he was going to publish a message for non-Christians; I have asked to see it. Because in my mental conversations with him, two things have remained very precise.... He has a sort of political ...
... 11, 1972 I've received a letter from P.L. This is what he says: "... You may have already learned that Cardinal Tisserant died on the 21st [of February]. As he was in reality the Vice-Pope, you can imagine the pomp of the funeral ceremony, with representatives from Page 89 the French government, the French Academy, the Italian government, etc.: one full week of ceremonies... to your beloved country in 1953. I have always held a keen interest in your great nation, but even more so after I visited it. It was thus with a very special pleasure that I accompanied His Holiness Pope Paul VI to the International Eucharistic Congress in Bombay. On that occasion, the Holy Father expressed the wish to come in contact with representatives of your country's main religious movements... opposition to this project. I therefore request Your Excellency kindly to use his authority to avoid any incident that, at all events, would be highly detrimental to the harmony that His Holiness Pope Paul VI so much desires, in accord with the rules laid down by the Ecumenical Council Vatican II. With gratitude, I remain, Venerable Lord, respectfully and faithfully yours, Signed: Eugène ...
... in literature, for the genuine and the counterfeit are not the same. The works of Milton and Page 48 Pope, of Corneille and Delille, are not classics of the same type. For us Pope and Delille do not appear as true classics, at the best they are perhaps classical. Pope and Delille followed the same technique that had been introduced by Milton and Corneille in the literary art, but they ...
... It is such a fantastic phenomenon: the power of Falsehood stems from its catching the Truth. Yes. And the stronger the Truth is, the more powerful the falsehood. Powerful. Look: there is a pope with a Church of Christ and how many millions upon millions of little Christians — So, how many millions of little followers of the religion of Sri Aurobindo! Ah, yes! Page 85 This... have been helping Nava (the said President) a bit with finding information ... putting him in touch with people, etc., and trying to feel unity with the best in him .” One cannot think better, even Pope Paul VI would say as much to the Protestants or the Copts. One has broad views, you know. The trouble is that the whole View is muddy, as we have said. Where is the “best” in a rotten fruit? And... the end, until Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s work is established in the world. Then I will not stay a minute longer amongst those sordid tribes — I belong to the open sea. I will be neither the new pope of a new religion nor the guru of any city whatever, even if it were Auroville — I will disappear without a trace. But the Work will be established. As a conclusion, really, don’t speak of ...
... he has the conviction that it is the pure Truth. Whereas the previous Pope really believed in it. This one knows too much in his supraconscient to believe that Christianity is the pure and exclusive Truth. Only, you see, Page 201 when you're lucky enough to be the Pope, you've got to believe that the Pope is the Pope! Try to imagine, look at the global situation from a distance: of course... ( This conversation took place a few days after the new Pope, Paul VI, was enthroned. Mother had asked Satprem to erase the recording, except for a few fragments, but he thought it fit to retain at least its integral transcription. ) Here, your flowers [roses]. A magnificent color.... Then I have another photo of the Pope ( Mother shows "Time" magazine ). It seems it's the photo he... power for the "good," if I may say so, or what? I tell you, it's a power of domination. But now he is the Pope, so his domination will have to be at the service of his position, you understand. But maybe... The very fact that I met him (he may have been already thinking of becoming Pope, I don't know), but anyway, long before anyone except him thought of it, the fact that I met him while seeing ...
... finds a religion imposed upon him which does not base its dogma and practice upon a living sense of ever verifiable spiritual Truth, but on the letter of an ancient book, the infallible dictum of a Pope, the tradition of a Church, the learned casuistry of schoolmen [the “scholastics”] and Pundits, conclaves of ecclesiastics, heads of monastic orders, doctors of all sorts, all of them unquestionable... × This refers to Martin Luther’s words before the Diet of Worms, at the critical moment of his revolt against the Pope and the Emperor: “Here I stand, I can no other.” × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, pp. 16 and 17 ...
... looking up for something like five minutes at that small, stooped figure pouring out over them and over the world, without any gesture or ceremony, her Force and blessings. On 21 June 1963 the Catholic Pope Paul VI was elected. He had a difficult task cut out for him in succeeding the beloved John XXIII who had initiated a revolution in the Catholic Church, the aggiornamento. John XXIII, John Kennedy and... Campanella got into serious trouble with the Inquisition, and was severely tortured and incarcerated for many years. He was, however, clever enough to escape execution and even to practise some magic with Pope Urban VIII himself. The Cittá del Sole (City of the Sun) is the title of Campanella’s most famous work; it was probably written in 1602, during his imprisonment. ‘The City of the Sun was to be ...
... June 11, 1969 ( Following a telegram from PL. announcing that he has been "excluded from the retinue" accompanying the Pope to the Geneva assembly. ) It seems to me to be a conflict between the Pope and the cardinals.... Have you got his letter? Not yet. He simply says he has been "excluded." ( After a silence ) A. has told me that the two preceding ...
... he had been excluded from the Pope's retinue just as the Pope was to make a speech in Geneva on "Christian unity" with the Protestants. So P.L. writes, "I started writing to you several times, but could not manage to end my letters. After the huge effort made to infuse the sentiments of openness that Mother had inspired me with, just as the Pope accepted to refrain from proclaiming himself as the 'Sole' ...
... other hand, may exhibit his poetic propensity even from his early adolescence. As a digression we may recall here the case of Alexander Pope, the 18th century classic. Here is the narration in the words of Amal Kiran: "From his very childhood he [Alexander Pope] made poems. He has autobiographically written: I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. But his father was extremely displeased ...
... the listing of things in such a way as to make the trivial appear last, thus producing a ludicrous effect due to the humorous shock of sudden frustration of an expectation. Example: The poet Pope wrote in his The Rape of the Lock: "Here thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." 12.A portmanteau word: A portmanteau... language coupled with an instantaneous sense of dual perception alone can enable one either to produce or even to apprehend a high-class pun. For example, take the celebrated joke or musing made by Pope Gregory when he saw some handsome English slaves at a Rome market: "Now Angli sed angeli". The pun of 'Angli' and 'angeli' cannot be properly appreciated without a knowledge of Latin declensions. ...
... the basic division in French is six-six, making a total of twelve syllables in the line. This is the Alexandrine, corresponding in structure to the Heroic Couplet in English, as in the famous lines of Pope: We call our fathers fools so wise we grow, Our wiser sons no doubt will call us so. Page 84 In French, we may take as specimens, in the pathetic voice of the great Racine:... each; the first has a light stress being unaccented, the second bears the accent. Take for example, the line: The cur/few tolls/the knell/of part/ing day, Page 85 or the lines from Pope which I have already cited, We call/our fath/ers fools/so wise/we grow, Our wis/er sons/no doubt/will call/us so. There is also the deep serious Miltonic voice: To reign/is worth ...
... confession. The pro-Church politics of Louis XV was opposed by the Parliament of Paris, which obtained the Society's dissolution in 1762 in France. Yielding to pressure, Pope Clement XIV issued a decree in 1773 abolishing the order. In 1814 Pope Pius VII restored the Society of Jesus. 1 Gaston Coeurdoux. He lived in Pondicherry and Karikal from 1731 to 1779 when he died. During his lifetime he practised ...
... Bah, bah! Because he wrote to the Pope... Here's what happened: he wrote to the Pope asking him for an audience, but that letter never reached the Pope. Oh! It fell into the hands of the "Chief of Correspondence," who probably sent it to the "Indian department" of the Vatican to find out what that Ashram was.... And he was never allowed to see the Pope. Eight days later, those attacks started... ill, you can't meet the Pope. You're 'out of it.'" Now they're on their guard over there. But with what he told me, I caught the Vatican's atmosphere.... It's something frightful, a mafia with bands hating each other, lying in wait for the Pope's disappearance, not daring to say anything: those who are for the Pope dare not say anything because they think, "When the Pope dies, Ill need his enemies... wants to be the other's enemy and each watches the other. It's a frightful atmosphere. Since he gave that letter for the Pope, I've been seeing constant attacks here, constant. These people are dangerous. And there's a serious fact I learned from P.L. You know that the Pope was operated on a year ago.... What for? Page 128 For the prostate. And in fact, it's cancer. Oh!. ...
... imagination and feeling, that is to say imaginative and emotional; that of eighteenth-century poetry is one of commonsense and reason, that is to say intellectual and rational. Pope and Johnson are the two chief critics of the school. Pope expressly lays it down in his Essay on Criticism that sense and wit are the bases of all true poetry and Johnson is continually appealing to them as criterions, especially... for their own sake, and the more absurd and violent, the better. Waller & Page 129 Dryden first and Pope to a much greater extent revolted against this style of forced ingenuity and proclaimed a new kind of poetry. They gave to Elizabethan language the name of false wit and Pope announced the objects of the new school in an often quoted couplet True wit is nature to advantage dressed... The poetry of Gray marks the transition from the eighteenth century or Augustan style of poetry to the nineteenth-century style; i.e. to say almost all the tendencies of poetry between the death of Pope and the production of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798 are to be found in Gray's writings. Of the other poets of the time, Johnson & Goldsmith mark the last development of the Augustan style, while Collins ...
... he had the sensation that the Pope was dead. It was the same atmosphere as at the time of Pius XII's death and John XXIII's Page 299 death: "The Pope is dead." Then all the cardinals met in a conclave closeted to elect a new Pope as usual. And they couldn't manage to elect a new Pope; time was passing, but they couldn't manage to elect a new Pope—the Pope was dead, but they couldn't elect... sensation is that he is going to be excluded from the Vatican this year. Officially, is it the Pope who does it, or the cardinals? It's always on the cardinals' suggestion. It's not the Pope who does it, it's merely put to his signature. No, but I mean... No, no! I don't think the Pope has anything against P.L., but there's a small clique around him which manipulates things—and imprisons ...
... had a dream.... Would you like me to read it to you? It's about the Pope! Page 129 Really! It's rather odd, because the child isn't aware of anything. He has had a dream which his mother has noted down: "We go and see the Pope. There are lots of people. Mama puts me second in line, and we draw near the Pope. He gives Mama a few hosts in a handkerchief then asks his servant to... at the back a Greek cross (with two equal sides). The servant brings the alb, which the Pope puts on me. Everyone has left. I hear P.L.s voice, but only see a little friend of the Ashram. We go back home, and as we are about to enter, the Pope's two servants arrive. I think, 'Now that I am going to be the Pope in turn, I must be very careful; my entourage and everyone I meet is important. These men... to harm me out of jealousy.' Mama opens the door and I see a servant of the Pope already in the room. I go in, caress my dog, and wake up. ( After a long silence ) Are you sure he hasn't heard of anything? He isn't aware of anything at all, this boy. It's strange. Do you know if he has ever seen the Pope? I don't know. I don't think so. 2 You don't think so.... It's ...
... the discrediting of some and the rehabilitation of the discredited. That happened to Pope and Dryden. Keats and his contemporaries broke their canons and trampled over their corpses to reach romantic freedom; now there is a rehabilitation. But all this is something of an illusion—for mark that even at the worst Pope and Dryden retained a place among the great names of English poetic literature. No ... Tagore mystic and mysterious and occupy a second place. That is another matter. It is a question of personal idiosyncrasy. There are people who thrill to Pope and find Keats and Shelley empty and misty. The clear precise intellectual meanings of Pope are to them the height of poetry—the emotional and romantic suggestions of the Skylark or the Ode to the Nightingale unsatisfactory. How the devil,... merit or special character of all he reads or sees in poetry and art, even when they do not evoke his strongest sympathy or deepest response. I have little temperamental sympathy for much of the work of Pope and Dryden, but I can see their extraordinary perfection or force in their own field, the masterly conciseness, energy, point, metallic precision into which they cut their thought or their verse, and ...
... question (twice, in fact) whether the Pope had to be elected from among cardinals. But in fact, there is no law saying that the Pope must necessarily be elected from among cardinals. Ah! He's elected by the cardinals, but not necessarily from among themselves, there's no such law: they may choose an outsider. In fact, in the thirteenth century, a well-known Pope, Celestine V, was elected from among... of Celestine V is quite symbolic. But P.L. told me one thing (which struck him very much, besides): the first act of this Pope, when he was nominated, was to go and bow before the grave of Celestine V, the only Pope who abdicated. Well, well!... I saw a photo of the Pope doing a full pranam [prostration] on the Mount of Olives, at a place where Christ stood.... But I told you that I met... unique in the history of the Church—and his successor had him imprisoned straight away. Later on, by the way, he was canonized.... But in actual fact, since then the cardinals have always elected the Pope from among themselves. They're too scared! But there's no law. They can even elect a layman, and in that case, rapidly give him priesthood, then nominate him bishop, archbishop, and so on.. ...
... by a mafia of cardinals who are attached to power. What I mean is that the Pope and P.L. are guilty of the same heresy! So if they put P.L. on trial, it's like putting the Pope on trial—will they dare to do it? But no one knows that the Pope and PL. have some relationship. P.L. has never been able to meet the Pope personally. He has never been able... No, never, he has always been prevented... 105 Yes.... "On trial for heresy"!... ( long silence ) Was it you who told me that the Pope had invited a sadhu from India? Yes. But the Pope too is on trial for heresy! Since he told the sadhu that true spirituality is now found in India—so he too is a heretic! But the Pope is isolated. He told that sadhu that his task is very difficult in view of the people around him. He ...
... existence because it is the safe side, has never appealed to me and I am sure you don't endorse its "business" or "gambler" frame of mind. Teilhard de Chardin was greatly embarrassed by the Mariolatry of Pope Pius XII who made the dogma of Mary's bodily ascension into heaven a compulsory belief. I don't think he accepted the bodily ascension of Jesus either - Page 88 and his acceptance... research the old blackwashing of the Albigensians does not hold. The province to which they belonged was the most prosperous in Christian Europe nor was there any notable looseness of life in it. Even Pope Innocent III who launched the crusade against them and had at least 100,000 men, women and children brutally slaughtered and the area where they had lived thoroughly devastated - even Innocent III... The only fault of the community was doctrinal difference. St. Dominic was prominent in the group that tried to convert the Albigensians. He failed and became one of the chief persons to urge the Pope to launch a military crusade against them. How can I accept such a saint as revealing the love of Christ and the power of Christ's mystery to transform human life? In fact the Order he founded was ...
... to pick anything representative out of Pope and set it beside a similar culling from Milton (not even necessarily from Milton at his best in Paradise Lost), in order to prove the crudeness of this Classicism. Next to the satiric, the reflective vein is most congenial to Pope, as in Know thy own point: This kind... unique for evoking poetry from language of the commonest. The fourth phase of Classicism comes in the so-called Augustan Age of England, the age of Dryden and Pope. As Sri Aurobindo remarks: "It took for its models the Augustan poets of Rome, but it substituted for the strength and weight of the Latin manner an exceeding... decorous sentiment, some memorable moments are there of steady incisiveness and metallic mobility in Dryden and of intense archness and effective clatter in Pope. Pope's truly imaginative moments are Page 26 no more than a few lines. In the following he seems to hit off with real ...
... say, I don't know them. But that's it, in fact. Page 329 But this Pope, he can't last very long if he has a cancer... Me, I know someone who can cure cancer!... It would be fun to cure the Pope! That would put them all in a... oh, you can't imagine how annoyed they would be! ( Laughter ) This Pope, in good health, would be a very useful help to the work—but they'll never let him... so they wear pants and a short neck, Protestant fashion—those are their great "reforms"! ( after a long silence ) Then he must stay on. ( silence ) Is it the cardinals who nominate the Pope? Yes. And from among themselves. Yes. Is it obligatory? Yes, always. 2 Page 330 And P.L.'s friend, the cardinal, which place is he the cardinal of? He isn't... mendicant monks, but five months later he abdicated, probably in disgust. He was jailed by his successor (and later canonized!). In fact, although no rule demands that the cardinals should elect the Pope from among themselves, it is always the case in practice. ...
... note. In Rome they had the visit of Swami Z, and our friend P.L. had lunch with him (because they took the Swami to see the Pope, he had an audience with the Pope), they had lunch together and, writes Msgr. R., "The Swami declared himself very happy about the audience with the Pope. He was able to give one of his books to the Holy Father, who told him (in English) that he liked India very much, that he... for the good of humanity, and encouraged him to pursue his mission. The Pope gave him a papal medal, and even added that he had great difficulty in developing his spirituality owing to his present entourage.... Oh, this is interesting!... It's interesting. There are a few more lines: "The Swami is convinced that if the Pope weren't obliged to remain in Rome to fulfill the functions imposed on ...
... speak to the Pope and tell him clearly all that's going on?..." Because you know that when the Pope came to Bombay, P.L. was with him in the plane.... I prefer the solution of speaking to the Pope. ( Mother goes into a long concentration ) Page 86 Is he the one who fainted here during a meditation? Yes, vitally and physically he is weak. But vitally, the Pope is very strong... leaving? Early in April. He'll ask to see you before he goes. Yes. But I won't speak. From here where will he go first? To Rome, I think. ( silence ) But I have a feeling the Pope may also be interested? ( Mother nods her head ) Page 87 × A visitor who has been staying in the Ashram ...
... ago (he didn't understand why), he chanced to see the Pope twice. He didn't at all know why. 2 The first time, he found himself there, in front of a throne, in front of this man [the Pope], who at first fixed his gaze on him and tried to hypnotize him. As he began to hypnotize him, V. started repeating your name within himself. Then the Pope stopped that gaze, gave him a smile and asked him, "Where... "Where do you come from?" V. replied, "I come from Sri Aurobindo's Ashram." Then the Pope answered, "Oh, I know the Mother very well!" Page 275 ( Mother smiles ) V. didn't understand the reason for it, what it meant. Then, a second time, he went there once more, saw the Pope again, who received him kindly and told him, "Oh, I would very much like to return to India." V. said to him ...
... the Pope. Has he decided to go to Rome? Yes, and as soon as he gets there, hell ask for an audience. It's quite (it remained for hours), quite unaccustomed: something far exceeding human individualities, and it was the beginning of something very important in the history of the earth's evolution. The last time I saw him, he asked me how he should get himself received by the Pope. I said... said to him, "It's very simple, Page 95 it's Sri Aurobindo's name that will open the door for you; just write the Pope, 'I come from Sri Aurobindo's Ashram and I would like to see you.'" ( Mother goes into a long concentration ) It's strange, a strange sensation.... You know, like turning a page. Yesterday and right up to now, it's been so strong: the sense of something going like... and everything are nothing but pawns, like that ( gesture as on a chessboard ), which are set in motion, but... We'll see. We should note that. Still, does it have something to do with the Pope? Yes. With Christendom. ( Mother again goes into a long contemplation ) Since yesterday (it didn't seem related to the first experience), but the whole day, my way of reacting (inwardly, not ...
... physical form. Brown's quotation 290 from Pope Paul VI has this very drift, for it says: "Jesus rose again in the same body he had taken from the Blessed Virgin, but in new conditions, vivified by a new and immortal animation, which imposes on Christ's flesh the laws and energies of the Spirit...." Brown's own position is more or less akin to that of Pope Paul VI. While stating it, he 291 d... accounts. In our time, despite the much greater control exercised by exact written and oral records, we Page 144 have seen a tremendous growth in the tradition about figures such as Pope John and John F. Kennedy within ten years after their death, so that one can speak of a difference between these men as they were in history and as they are in the popular evaluation." According... their belonging to a Church which has had a reputation for narrow Page 225 orthodoxy, is indicative of the wind of liberalism that has blown through the Vatican from the period of Pope Pius XII. Before we close the empty-tomb topic we may dwell a little on the strange shifts connected with the story. Drawing upon Brown 282 we begin with the fact: "the verses that conclude ...
... Faced with the Vatican's intrigues, P.L. finally sent the Pope his resignation. He never received a reply. × In 1969 to Geneva, where the Catholic Church held a "reunion" with Protestant churches. Schemings prevented P.L. from accompanying the Pope. ... Its like a capacity of directing ( gesture of concentrating the Force through a channel ), and something that has the power to sweep away resistances. That's why they didn't let him go with the Pope, they would have done something together. 3 In the past, when a man was like that, he was called "God's instrument." That's exactly the impression he gives me: God's instrument. A power that ...
... brought something of the original - Leishman's Rilke, Eliot and others who have translated St. John Perse in such a way as to make a shining contribution to the art of translation." Surely Chapman or Pope or Dryden, in their remarkably successful compositions, cannot be considered truly "faithful" to their models and yet they have achieved genuine poetry. Chapman in particular has come in for praise... though an outstanding spiritual figure, made a poor show in the poetry in which he sought to express his mystical vision and experience. In a letter to Kishor Gandhi you even compared Sri Aurobindo to Pope John Paul II who, though reckoned a holy man, can make no impression with the verses he writes. Here is just the general principle that one who is eminent for his high inner life is not necessarily... England up to his twenty-first year there, had himself the poetic urge throughout his life of English-writing? I hope you will understand how irrelevant and inappropriate is any analogy from Steiner or Pope John Paul 11. I am glad you were happy with the lines about Old Age. They are another excerpt from Sri Aurobindo's narrative of 1899, Love and Death. Naturally they go home to people like us who ...
... his kingdom and his religion had radically changed. For at the time of his first marriage Henry and all of his realm were Catholic, and a Catholic cannot divorce without the sanction of the Pope. When the Pope, mainly for political reasons, was unwilling to sanction his divorce from Catherine, Henry seceded from the Catholic Church and became head of the Anglican Church (as the British monarch still... , every neighbouring power – France (manipulating Mary, Queen of Scots) and Spain foremost among them – was ready to pounce on the helpless country governed by an apparently helpless Queen, and the Pope did his utmost to remove that heretic woman from the throne. ‘Since that guilty woman of England rules over two such noble kingdoms of Christendom [England and Scotland] and is the cause of so much ...
... reads:] "It is feast day in the Vatican. St. Peter's Square is jammed with people. The Pope's procession begins; I have witnessed it many times, very near the Pope, next to the cardinals. But instead of the sedia gestatoria [the chair in which the Pope is carried], there is a huge elephant carrying someone. Who is this someone? Sweet Mother? No, it's Pavitra.... Not at all, it's Satprem! No, it's the School's... did what it had to do, came just when it was needed and so on and so forth, we know all that—the time has come when it must change in order to become the instrument of tomorrow's truth. And this Pope has done his work well, as well as he could. For perhaps a long time yet, or at any rate for some time, P.L. must be the intermediary, but a somewhat conscious one—not active. He acts as an intermediary ...
... be like that so long as I am here. Soon afterwards I have to tell you about P.L. Oh, I got your note yesterday. Page 101 There are important things.... You know that the Pope has set up a "Reform Committee" for the Church, and PL. is on it. For a few months he was asked to go and carry out "opinion polls" here and there (in Portugal, Spain, etc.), so as to study possible... appeared, a new Consciousness—let us go in search of it. But we shall have to step down from our throne, from our convenience; perhaps to leave the place to others and do away with the Hierarchy: no more Pope or Cardinals or Bishops, but all of us seekers of the TRUTH, of the CONSCIOUSNESS, the POWER, the SUPRANATURAL, the SUPRAHUMAN..... "Satprem, I left the room and went away... for a walk in the ... declare me insane, heretic? I am waiting. I am eager to go and see Mother. I am preparing my travel for Easter.... (That took place on Monday the 24th of February.) To this day, no reaction. Has the Pope been informed? I do not know. I have continued with the inquiry entrusted to me. I feel very calm, very strong. I have not spoken about all that to any of those close to me (not even to Msgr. R.). The ...
... But it presented itself in that way in order to make me watch intently, seriously, not as a mental consideration: a vision and an experience. Immediately afterwards, I had a visit from the Pope! The Pope [Paul VI] had come to Pondicherry (he does intend to visit India), he had come to Pondicherry and asked to see me (quite impossible things materially, of course, but they were perfectly simple... always takes the form of an experience, an ACTION: something that has to be done and gets done, or that has to be known and becomes known. It is never the mental transcription of ordinary life. The Pope... I wonder why: what happened? What does it mean? Why did it happen? But I still see the scene; it was a very Page 26 living reality: he was tall, in the room over there ( the music room ...
... Cauchon's only purpose was to procure a confession of guilt, and a judge who declared the proceedings illegal was expelled from the court. Above all, Joan's demand to be allowed to appeal to the pope was ignored. Through all the tragic farce Joan's composure remained undisturbed and her country wit frequently disconcerted the learned examiners. ... To the ever- repeated, charge of immodesty... otherwise, might have been perceived, in the mist and fog of these ancient, poorly documented times, as not much more than a beautiful legend. Nearly five hundred years afterwards, in 1919, Pope Benedict XV raised the peasant maid of Domremy to the altars of the Catholic Church among the saints of God. Lamartine, the great French poet, says of her: "Joan of Arc, the prophetess, the... 1430Joan of Arc arrives in Rouen Feb. 21, 1431 Trial for heresy begins May 30, 1431 Burned at the stake Dec. 1455 The Process of Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc begins at Rouen July 7, 1456 Pope Calixtus III declares 1431 verdict against Joan of Arc null and void 1920 Roman Catholic Church admits Joan of Arc to the catalogue of saints Page 113 Europe in the late Middle Age: ...
... satire. Dignified political satire was carried to perfection in Dryden's Absolm and Achitophel. The Horatian style reached its perfection in France in the satirical writings of Boileau. Alexander Pope in England showed great progress along the line. We should not forget either the names of Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift. The 18th century was indeed the age of satire. Voltaire was really a... Aristophanes is a comic creator - like Shakespeare when he turns in that direction - the satire is only a strong line in his creation; that is a different kind of inspiration, not the ordinary satire. Pope attempted something creative in his Rape of the Page 373 Lock, but the success, if brilliant, is thin because the deeper creative founts and the kindlier sources of vision are not... Christ or Moses. So I shall go on poisoning and strangling for the good of myself and Italy and leave 'impatient idealists' to their irresponsible chatter. Still I am a Christian and the nephew of a Pope, so my anchor holds, yes, my anchor holds.' "Mr. Morley's fur-coat is one of the most comprehensive garments ever discovered. All the tribe of high-aiming tyrants and patriotic pirates and able ...
... him misty and mysterious and occupy a second place. That is another matter. It is a question of personal idiosyncrasy. There are people who thrill to Pope and find Keats and Shelley empty and misty. The clear precise intellectual meanings of Pope are to them the height of poetry—the emotional and romantic suggestions of the Skylark or the Ode to a Nightingale unsatisfactory. How the devil, they ask... ask, can a skylark be a spirit, not a bird? What the hell has 'a glow-worm golden in a dell of dew' to do with the song of the skylark? They are unable to feel these things and say Pope would never have written in that incoherent inconsequential way. Of course he wouldn't. But that simply means they like things that are intellectually clear and can't appreciate the imaginative connections which reveal ...
... waste my time on it. PURANI: Charu Dutt says that the modern poets are trying to follow Pope and Dryden in their play with words, their metrical devices, etc. SRI AUROBINDO: How? Pope and Dryden are very clear in what they say, while you can't make out anything of the Modernists. As regards metre, Pope and Dryden are formalists and limited. One may say they don't play with words. The Modernists ...
... Aristophanes is a comic creator—like Shakespeare when he turns in that direction—the satiric is only a strong line in his creation; that is a different kind of inspiration, not the ordinary satire. Pope attempted something creative in his Rape of the Lock , but the success, if brilliant, is thin because the deeper creative founts and the kindlier sources of vision are not there. 27 April 1931 ... in all the arts, but I doubt whether any English or French critic or prosodist would go so far as to dub "Who killed Cock Robin?" the true movement of English rhythm, putting aside Chaucer, Spenser, Pope or Shelley as too cultivated and accomplished or too much under foreign influence or to seek for his models in popular songs or the products of the café chantant in preference to Hugo or Musset or ...
... was successfully vindicated; for the King of France exercised a control over the Gallican Church and clergy which rendered all effective interference of the Pope in French affairs impossible. In Spain, in spite of the close alliance between Pope and King and the theoretical admission of the former's complete spiritual authority, it was really the temporal head who decided the ecclesiastical policy and ...
... metallic vigours of verse. This side of the national mind would prepare us for English poetry as it was until Chaucer and beyond, for the ground-type of the Elizabethan drama, the work of Dryden and Pope, the whole mass of eighteenth-century verse, Cowper, Scott, Wordsworth in his more outward moments, Byron without his Titanism and unrest, much of the lesser Victorian verse, Tennyson without his surface... slender stream of Caroline lyrics, is that of a trivial intellectuality which does not follow the lead of Milton and is the exact contrary of the Elizabethan form and spirit, the thin and arid reign of Pope and Dryden. Another violent and impatient breaking away, a new outburst of wonderful freshness gives us the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake with another spirit and another language of the ...
... emphasis, because they are the key to the immediately following reaction of English poetry with its turn in Milton towards a severe and serious intellectual effort and discipline and its fall in Dryden and Pope to a manner which got away from the most prominent defects of the Elizabethan mind at the price of a complete and disastrous loss of all its great powers. English poetry before Milton had not passed... concentrated narrowness of the observing eye. This movement rises on one side into the ripened classical perfection of Milton, and falls away on the other through Waller into the reaction in Dryden and Pope. Page 89 ...
... immaculate virgin authority for pronunciation or a papal Infallible. It was you who quoted Chambers as differing from Oxford, not I. You seem indeed to think that the Fowlers are a sort of double-headed Pope to the British public in all linguistic matters and nobody could Page 633 dare question their dictates or ukases—only I do so because I am antiquated and am living in India. I take leave... sufficient simply to quote the Oxford in order to produce an awed and crushed silence? So your P.S. has no solid ground to stand on since there is no "fixed" current speech and Fowler is not its Pope and there is no universal currency of his vizhn of things. Language is not bound Page 634 by analogy and because has become "meditashun" it does not follow that it must become "meditashn" ...
... poetry turned for a time in the intellectual fullness of the nineteenth century; that too was more indistinctly the half-conscious drift of the slow transitional movement which intervenes between Pope and Wordsworth." Among the Romantics themselves there is a pointer to it in Page 159 the work of Keats. Sri Aurobindo has some interesting remarks on it. He considers Keats and... intellectual endeavour in the immediate predecessors was "paltry, narrow and elegantly null" , 9 the poetic sight a power of making abstractions pointed by rhetorical means. One of the best passages in Pope is - interestingly enough - on a kind of Pantheism: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; 'That, changed through all, and yet in all the ...
... form of poetry lay as well under the shadow of the mechanistic philosophy. Corresponding to the theorems of physics, there were the geometrical plays of Racine and the balanced clicking couplets of Pope. Whitehead points out that Romanticism refused to look on the world as mechanism and saw it as organism: the Romantic poet perceives, in Edmund Wilson's words, 3 "that nature includes planets,... the lines when he praised them: The white moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me, O ! Page 109 symptomatic that his favourite poet should be Pope. But his frequent rhetoric has a picturesque individual note which is at the same time a splash of the sea of the Life-force and a gust drawn from the high searching wind of the poetic intelligence ...
... there. I am counting on it. ( Then Satprem reads to Mother a letter from the friend in the Vatican. ) Page 36 "...When the Pope was traveling [in the Pacific], there were two assassination attempts on him—they didn't succeed. I consider the Pope as being especially protected by me, through me. Twice they tried to kill him, and twice they failed. "I don't know why they want to kill ...
... Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eyes can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing … Thus wrote the popular poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in his Essay on Man . (The wonders revealed by the microscope – the “glass” – were thrilling the intelligentsia of those days.) Wilber writes that evolution is fully compatible with... exceptional. But not only is man part of the chain, he seems to be positioned somewhere in the middle on it, halfway up or halfway down, higher than the animals, lower than the angels. To quote Alexander Pope again: Plac’d in this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic pride, He hangs between; ...
... have two things: one letter from P.L. and one about him. Here is P.L.'s [Satprem reads a letter in which P. L. writes that he fell ill as soon as he came back to the Vatican, that he could not see the Pope, is in despair, incapable, etc.]. He doesn't have the strength. That's what I feared. The influence is too strong ( gesture to show P.L. caught in a grip ). And the other letter? It's a letter... × It is in fact the start of a long story with the Vatican and the Church's reforms (or rather the continuation, after Mother's "meeting" with the Pope before his 1964 visit to Bombay). ...
... remain at the entire disposal of the Holy Father, who entrusts me with a grave and difficult question concerning the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference: I am asked to solve that problem. The Pope is counting on my skill, and so on. I was questioned about the reasons for my remarks of February 24 (on March 24, I did not open my mouth), for there had just been a Page 116 bombshell:... my WORD where you are...' ( Mother nods approvingly ) "...'I am with you.' So I canceled my ticket." It's good. Oh, you know, I concentrated a lot, but a lot, and I found the Pope extraordinarily receptive—only, imprisoned. That's it, you understand, a rather remarkable receptivity, but... ( gesture under a bell-jar ) imprisoned in his action. But where he can probably act, he ...
... Emile Mersch, belonging to Teilhard's own Jesuit Order, has written "his books on the mystical body bringing out, in accordance with tradition, its physical and not simply its moral reality", and Pope Pius XII has himself issued an Encyclical on the Mystical Body to emphasise the more-thanmoral significance of that doctrine of Christ's universal gathering-up of Creation - as late as October 12... of his Christ. Else, with all that contemporary authoritative religious literature behind him, would he write, as Rideau 40 reports him doing, to the Abbe Breuil on December 13,1952: "If only I were Pope for just long enough to write one encyclical on 'the universal Christ'"? Nor is his isolation surprising when we see how his Christ's peculiar universality made the immanent universe more ...
... speech, like the Metaphysicals, and to the use of Latinisms and involved syntax ("periods") like Milton. In his satirical and reflective passages, he instinctively goes back to the vigour of Dryden and Pope, their epigrammatic and antithetical manner, as in the following lines: There is no miracle I shall not achieve. What God imperfect left, I will complete, Out of a tangled mind and... Aurobindo's reflective style. Where the matter is familiar to the reader and it can therefore be spicily presented, we have the balanced and antithetical style developed in the manner of Dryden and Pope: What God imperfect left, I will complete, Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul His sin and error I will eliminate; 17 Ibid., p. 586. 18 Ibid., p. 588. 19 ...
... immaculate virgin authority for pronunciation or a papal Infallible. It was you who quoted Chambers' as differing from Oxford, not I. You seem indeed to think that the Fowlers are a sort of double-headed Pope to the British public in all linguistic matters and nobody could dare question their dictates or ukases — only I do so because I am antiquated and am living in India. I take leave to point out to you... not out of favouritism - I may quote him for 'summation' - 'summashun', not 'shn'.... So your P.S. has no solid ground to stand on since there is no 'fixed' current speech and Fowler is not its Pope and there is no universal currency of his vizhn of things. Language is not bound by analogy and because 'meditation' has become 'meditashun' it does not follow that it must become 'meditashn' and ...
... and religion. So they try to crush religion. Sri Aurobindo : But Mussolini did not crush religion in Italy, though Kemal and Stalin did. Mussolini on the contrary has given more power to the Pope in the Vatican. He has practically recognized the Roman Church as the State religion. Disciple : I read in a newspaper that Kemal in his intoxicated condition slapped an Egyptian because he... and religion. So they try to crush religion. Sri Aurobindo : But Mussolini did not crush religion in Italy, though Kemal and Stalin did. Mussolini on the contrary has given more power to the Pope in the Vatican. He has practically recognized the Roman Church as the State religion. Disciple : I read in a newspaper that Kemal in his intoxicated condition slapped an Egyptian because he ...
... as if there were only ONE thing, ONE cry at the bottom of what is born and is trying to be born, and what is yet unborn but wants, so much wants to be born at last, without "God" or Devil, without pope or catechism, without garbs to cloak it or "tricks" or borders—purely and simply the little cell it IS. And that is all. In Page 16 truth, that IS ALL there is in a little creature, in... compel us to find the solution? A wild bird cries out, there on the ocean of ages. Did we come from so far away through so many centuries and sorrows and prisons under this king or that, this pope and so many others, this prophet and all others, vanished and returned, those revolutionaries from here and there with no revolution ever, and again our blood, again our sorrows, always our death ...
... Kalidasa. Others again approach her Page 313 with a fine or clear intellectual sense of her charm as do some of the old classical poets. Hardly in the rank of poets are those who like Dryden & Pope use her, if at all, only to provide them with a smooth or well-turned literary expression. Vyasa belongs to none of these, and yet often touches the first three at particular points without definitely ...
... Wakefield, a poem of Tennyson or a book of Milton, at most two plays of Shakespeare, a work of Bacon's or Burke's full of ideas which he is totally incompetent to digest and one or two stray books of Pope, Dryden, Spenser or other, & to crown this pretentious little heap a mass of second-hand criticism dealing with poets & writers of whom he has not studied a single line. When we remember that English ...
... fixed by a Council of priests no more spiritual, wise or illustrious than the minds they coerce with their irrational authority. Europe is certainly not going to exchange a Catholic for a Theosophical Pope, the Council of Cardinals for the Esoteric Section, or the Gospel and the Athanasian Creed for Ancient Wisdom and Isis Unveiled . Will India long keep the temper that submits to unexamined authority ...
... Body Introduction: The Heart of the Problem "The unique and sensational event on which the whole of human history turns" - that is how, in an address on April 5, 1972, Pope Paul VI characterised what the doctrine which has been central to Christianity from the very beginning affirms: the Resurrection of Jesus' crucified body. This doctrine is meant to convey the sense ...
... 117). The above delineation by Amal Kiran is superbly precise. The confusing slogan of 'pluralism' is today harped upon to undermine Hinduism, and to buttress declarations like those of the Pope (New Delhi, 1999) that the goal for the 21st century (or may be the 3rd millennium) is to Christianise Asia. Page 413 Mind you, the venue for the display of such audacity was India ...
... from Mark the presence of brothers and sisters, one may doubt the authenticity of the infancy narratives and look back on the birth of Jesus in the light of Mary's subsequent relationship with Joseph. Pope Siricius, Epistle 9,3, in the fourth century saw the danger and argued that if one denies the perpetual virginity of Mary one plays into the hands of scoffers who say that Jesus could not have been ...
... “Reading Darwinist literature, one cannot help noticing the way in which each writer stresses his or her own orthodoxy and total fidelity to Darwin, much like bishops discussing the encyclicals of a pope.” 10 Novelist Barbara Kingsolver describes Darwin’s idea of natural selection as “the greatest, simplest, most elegant logical construct ever to dawn across our curiosity about the workings of natural ...
... so-called irrefutable proofs, this assassination remains shrouded in mystery. A year later, Khrushchev was sidelined by the Stalinists. And after the open attitude and the reformations of the ‘transitional pope’ John XXIII, the conservative Roman Curia took hold of the helm of the Catholic Church again. But the Sixties were in full swing. ‘The whole world is being subjected to an action which at the moment ...
... such a crisis as it has done in our own century. The cosmos looked clear-cut, orderly, self-contained: the very nature of the physical world appeared to be Page 234 revealed by Newton. Pope summed up Newton's achievement: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and there was light. In our own day a poet has added: But not for long. The Devil ...
... realised from the instances we know of men possessing wonderful talents yet baulked of that ability to take one step forward which constitutes the salto mortale between verse and poetry. A mind like Pope could have put to magnificent use the Page 49 neatness, clarity, point and speed of his versification if only the true spirit had possessed him. As it was, he wrote rarely anything ...
... that they do not belong to the company of the universal poets, like Homer and Shakespeare, in whom everything human touches some chord and passes into music. But they are closer to common life than Pope or Dryden, even than Milton or Spenser. It would be hard to think of another man who combined, as Blake did, an extraordinary power of vision with the tenderest compassion for the outcast and the oppressed ...
... the canonisation of a man came about after much scrutinising of his life and its sources of activity, a careful study of the subjective as well as objective quality of his being. That is why even the Pope who is the head of the Church is not by virtue of his mere moral and religious eminence called a saint. Among the Protestants, whoever lives a life of sexual abstinence and charity and service is a ...
... came about after much scratinising of his life and its sources of activity, a careful study of the subjective as well as objective quality of his being. That is Page 149 why even the Pope who is the head of the Church is not in virtue of his mere moral and religious eminence called a saint. Among the Protestants, whoever lives a life of sexual abstinence and charity and service is a ...
... poetry. For, such poetry has several kinds of movement. And in the age - the so-called English "Augustan" - which succeeded that of Milton we have a skilful language of the mind - the language of Dryden, Pope and others - yet with-out the natural nobility which moves in Milton. Rather there is a polished efficiency arranging glitters of thought. Even when a finer note is added, a tinge of truer feeling, ...
... The Future Poetry Chapter XIX The Victorian Poets The epoch associated in England with the name of Victoria was in poetry, like that of Pope and Dryden, an age of dominant intellectualism; but, unlike that hard and sterile period, it has been an imaginative, artistic intellectualism, touched with the greater and freer breath of modern thought and its ...
... finds a religion imposed upon him which does not base its dogma and practice upon a living sense of ever verifiable spiritual Truth, but on the letter of an ancient book, the infallible dictum of a Pope, the tradition of a Church, the learned casuistry of schoolmen and Pundits, conclaves of ecclesiastics, heads of monastic orders, doctors of all sorts, all of them unquestionable tribunals whose sole ...
... ornamental fancies, echoes learned and imitative rather than uplifted and transformed. This is what is sometimes called classical poetry, the vigorous and excellent but unemotional and unuplifted poetry of Pope and Dryden. It has its inspiration, its truth and value; it is admirable in its way, but it is only great when it is lifted out of itself into intuitive writing or else invaded by the heart. For everything ...
... way as the lower kind of poetic adequacy differs from prose adequacy by just managing to bring in some element of rhythmic emotion and vision, and of this kind we may take an effective example from Pope,— Atoms and systems into ruins hurled And now a bubble burst and now a world. A greater spirit and a less intellectual and more imaginative sincerity and elevation of thought, feeling and ...
... philanthropy 85 physical culture and sports 117-9, 133 police 132 politics 32, 36-7, 42-3, 86-7 the Pope 40 a port 18,23 progress 72, 225, 236, 238, 250 Promesse (settlement) 41 propaganda see information ... ...
... modern suits) look like puppets, mon petit! Oh, it's awful!... Awful. He at least has a force—or a will, at any rate. And he has a plan, he knows what he wants. ( silence ) He is also the first Pope to travel by plane, so they took his photograph in the plane—he gives a "broad smile," he looks very happy. ( long silence ) In sum, it is the glorification of physical suffering as a means of ...
... worst. Catholicism still retains something of the occult sense, and after all, they have a certain adoration for the Virgin, which keeps them in contact with something that's not asuric. The last Pope, who's dead now [Pius XII], had broadened both his own mind and Church doctrine a lot: he was a devotee of the Virgin. But the Protestants turned back to the Father, and so their worship became exactly ...
... cross ( Mother remains silent ). They [the Catholics] are furiously active in France. Yes... Oh, but there has been something new here. Very recently, three days ago, a messenger from the Pope came to visit Pondicherry and, naturally, to meet the archbishop. There was a public reception—and the archbishop invited people from the Ashram officially!... Z was Catholic and he went, and it seems ...
... book which he dates to the close of the third century - that is, about 300 years earlier - be ranked as a recent work? Can anybody in the twentieth century speak legitimately of Dryden and Johnson and Pope as recent writers? On the strength of Dandin's alleged word, more logical is J. Jolly's attempt to prove the contemporaneity of the Daśakumāracharita and the Arthaśāstra. But Kangle 3 reminds ...
... it, for there is a force protecting me). Yet, things at the Vatican, at the center of the Church, are changing. The struggle of the new forces against the traditional ones is now very strong. If the Pope accepts (his entourage is against it) to go to Geneva on June 10 and take part in the Assembly of Protestant Churches, and asserts there that we are not 'the only ones to possess the truth,' I believe ...
... implicated the various elements responsible for that outburst of hatred. Among the very first to blame, she cited Pondicherry's Catholics: "... First, the militant Catholics, because—in spite of what the Pope declared after his visit to India—they are convinced that whoever is not a Catholic must be an instrument of the devil ..." × ...
... But I see that P. L. may only be an intermediary, and R. may be... how should I put it? The channel. Yes, there, to let the Current in. ( silence ) I had already been told that the Pope is the richest man in the world. Yes, that's true. Material wealth seems to have concentrated there. From that standpoint, a positive standpoint (there's also a very important negative standpoint) ...
... mysticism is not so limited as that, it seeks to transform life, to reveal the Absolute hidden in it; it seeks to establish "the kingdom of God in man," as Sri Aurobindo wrote, "and not the kingdom of a Pope, clergy or sacerdotal class." If the modem world lives in conflict and anguish, if it is torn between "being" and "doing," it is because religion has driven away God from this world, severed him from ...
... one who was not born a poet. That is the master art of Yoga — to bring the subtle planes into re-creative action. The example of a born poet may be given from an incident in the life of Alexander Pope, the 18th century classic. From his very childhood he made poems. He has autobiographically written: I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. But his father was extremely displeased with this ...
... Great figures still adorned that age – stalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montes-quieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism ...
... 322 Pisacha, 201, 234 Planck, Max, 356 Plato, 1l7, 150, 211, 219, 326 Plotinus, 150, 361 Poland, 72, 127 Pole, the, 304 Polonius, 187 Pope, 212 Pound, Ezra, 192 Pragmatism, 326 Prithwiraj, 90 Prometheus, 234 Proteus, 274 Prussia, 88 Puranas, the, 71 Pythagoras, 150,211 ...
... supported by power and because it confused religion with the Church, or because it stood for a false theocracy, forgetting that true theocracy is the kingdom of God in man and not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. Fourth, it has often supported a rigid and outworn social system, because it thought its own life bound up with social forms with which it happened ...
... Great figures still adorned that age— stalwarts that either stuck to the prevailing norm and gave it a kind of stagnant nobility or already leaned towards the new light that was dawning once more. Pope and Johnson, Montesquieu and Voltaire are its high-lights. The nineteenth century brought in another crest wave with a special gift to mankind; apparently it was a reaction to the rigid classicism and ...
... -"Miracle", 190n -"Winter Night", 189n Pax Britannica, 250 Persia, 284 Philolaus, 131 Pilate, 4 Plato, 247-8, 275n., 279 Poetry, 196n., 207n Pondicherry, 228 Pope, 85 Pound, Ezra, 88 Pravahan, 22 Pythagoras, 30 RAKsHASAS, 159 Rama, 187 Ramayana, the, 235 Ramprasad, 218 Reformation, the, 273 Renaissance, the, 71, 239 Renard, ...
... perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versification—although here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille ...
... Oxford, 1912). Knight, G. Wilson. The Crown of Life : Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays (Methuen, London, 1958). Laureate of Peace : on the Genius of Alexander Pope (Roudedge, London, 1954). Kurtz, Benjamin P. The Pursuit of Death (Oxford University Press, London, 1933). Lai, P. & K. Raghavendra RAO. Modern Indo-Anglian Poetry (Kavita ...
... 49,318 Pinto, Vivian de Sola 344 Piper, Ravmond Frank 373 Plato 33,271 Plotinus33,326 Page 495 Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, ...
... and must share the mortality of the world; how, then, can a bird either be a spirit or be immortal? "There are people", Sri Aurobindo once wrote to a correspondent, "who thrill to Pope and find Keats and Shelley empty and misty... What the hell has 'a glowworm golden in a dell of dew to do with the song of the skylark? But that simply means they like things that are Page ...
... handing it to us in plain prose, like a man and a philosopher, instead of padding it round with a lot of obscure rhetoric." 83 But G. Wilson Knight is no less right when, while assessing the poetry of Pope, he studies "the total contents, as opposed to the style in isolation". 84 Elsewhere Wilson Knight writes: "Poetic language is an incarnation, not a transcription of thought: it is a seizing on truth ...
... church) spoke only of ghosts and nasty foreigners who threw bottles into the sea with crocodile eggs inside, in order to eat the country — but fortunately the "Sacred Heart" was there along with the Pope. I listened to all that and told myself that all it would take was but one Missionary, whispering in their superstitious ears that we were suspicious atheists.... So, to go to Alofi by ourselves ...
... as the blue of the sky overhead and over all the cages of men, whether gothic or exotic: oh l there is something which no temple, no Church can. seize, something that no being, no prophet, no god, no pope can hold whether he be from the East or the West; that no book, no mystery can imprison in its formula of stone or of blood, its letters of ink or of light; something greater than all the saviours of ...
... lecturer undertook to prove, in the face of the younger Brahmo body as well as Christian Missionaries, that Hinduism is superior to all other religions, because it owes the name to no man (let us add: no Pope, no Ayatollah either), in other words, it is the only 'religion' which is not based on a God-chosen personality; because it is the only 'religion' which knows no heresy; because while other scriptures ...
... Sound is more essential to poetry than sense. Swinburne who often conveys no meaning to the intellect, yet fills his verse with lovely & suggestive melodies, can put more poetry into one such line than Pope into a hundred couplets of accurate sense and barren music. A noble thought framed in a well-rounded sentence, will always charm by virtue of its satisfying completeness, but will never convey that ...
... Dictionary. metres not 15ṭḥ century; rhymes inconsistent with 15ṭḥ century pronunciation; words either noted down from above & often incorrectly used; or invented by C. himself. Page 142 Pope School 1) Trace the history of the classical eighteenth-century style thro' this period. 2) Describe the career of Goldsmith, or of a typical man of letters during this period. 3) Estimate ...
... his remorse and the turning of his spirit, a sentiment which Charlemagne massacring the Saxons in order to make good Christians of them could not in the least have understood, nor any more perhaps the Pope who anointed him? Constantine gave the victory to the Christian religion, but there is nothing Christian in his personality; Asoka not only enthroned Buddhism, but strove though not with a perfect success ...
... rebellious Cardinal. And what is the pertinence of the past history of the Roman Catholic Church, especially at a time when we have one of the most liberal minded Popes or even the most liberal minded Pope in Roman Catholic history? Even if it is only a fight between the Holy See of Rome and the unholy See of the Kremlin the fight is between one centre of religious intolerance and another centre of a ...
... from our mediaeval superstitions, we shall find that the intellectual conclusions of the rationalist, for all their pomp and protest of scrupulous enquiry, were as much dogmas as those former dicta of Pope and theologian, which confessed without shame their simple basis in the negation of reason.... It is always best, therefore, to scrutinise very narrowly those bare, trenchant explanations which so easily ...
... Auroville references in Mother's Agenda February 15, 1967 AM VIII-54 ... It seems the Pope was approached on the subject of Auroville, and he asked if there would be a Catholic church!... They asked me the question. I said, "No, no churches, no temples...." February 18, 1967 AM VIII-58-59 [This passage is part of a longer conversation ...
... Christ or Moses. So I shall go on poisoning and strangling for the good of myself and Italy and leave 'impatient idealists' to their irresponsible chatter. Still I am a Christian and the nephew of a pope, so my anchor holds, yes, my anchor holds." Mr. Morley's fur coat is one of the most comprehensive garments ever discovered. All the tribe of high-aiming tyrants and patriotic pirates and able ...
... and action and passion wonderful to the life soul in us in Shakespeare, seen and spoken with nobility and grandeur of vision and voice in Milton, intellectualised vigorous or pointed commonplace in Pope and Dryden, played with elegance and beauty on the lesser strings with the Victorians or cast out here and there a profounder strain of thought or more passionate and aspiring voice, and if the most ...
... instance of the manner, or Milton's Page 177 Those thoughts that wander through eternity, or any of his stately rolling lines or periods of organ music will do for a great illustration. Pope and Dryden simply overdid the reliance on measure and chained themselves up in a monotony of pointed metrical effect. The succeeding poets got back to the greater freedoms of tone and used them in a ...
... least a deified cleverness, but that is when the intellect after finding something brilliant transmits it to some higher power for uplifting and transfiguration. It is because that is not always done by Pope and Dryden that I once agreed with Arnold in regarding their work as a sort of half poetry; but since then my view and feeling have become more catholic and I would no longer apply that phrase,—Dryden ...
... Would you please tell me where in Homer the "descent of Apollo" occurs? 1 It is in the first fifty or a hundred lines of the first book of the Iliad. 2 I don't suppose Chapman or Pope have rendered it adequately. Of course not—nobody could translate that—they have surely made a mess of it. Homer's passage translated into English would sound perfectly ordinary. He gets the ...
... supported by power and because it confused religion with the Church, or because it stood for a false theocracy, forgetting that true theocracy is the kingdom of God in man and not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. So too it has often supported a rigid and outworn social system, because it thought its own life bound up with social forms with which it happened to have been ...
... poetry had eventually to turn in the intellectual fullness of the nineteenth century. It was already the indistinct and half-conscious drift of the slow transitional movement which intervenes between Pope and Wordsworth; but as yet this movement was obscure, faltering and poor in its achievement. When a greater force came streaming in, the influences that were abroad were those which elsewhere found ...
... and by shortcomings peculiar to his own nature. There is nothing of that common aim and manner which brings into one category Page 126 the Elizabethan dramatists or the contemporaries of Pope and Dryden. We have to cast an eye upon them successively at their separate work and see how far they carried their achievement and where they stopped short or else deviated from the path indicated ...
... settles into its Page 356 place. What was held as sovereign in its own time is rudely dethroned but afterwards recovers not its sovereign throne but its due position in the world's esteem; Pope is an example and Byron, who at once burst into a supreme glory and was the one English poet, after Shakespeare, admired all over Europe but is now depreciated, may also recover his proper place. Encouraged ...
... enabling the Light to enter there—the very fact of his being there. That's what I had told him. As for me, I'll add something. You understand, they made an attempt to unify all of Christendom, and the Pope went to Geneva to unite with the Protestants—which wouldn't have been so good. That's not the thing needed, because it would have strengthened Christianity—division takes away some of its power. It's ...
... prose-turn. Contrast Marvell's closing phrase — Waves in its plumes the various light — with one of Pope's on sylphs, air-spirits: Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Pope has effective sound-values supporting his expression. The three long a- sounds in "change", "they" and "wave" suggest a kind of repeated expansion — an expansion suggested further by the three w's ...
... which is in art at least the characteristic of our later humanity. There is nothing of that common aim and manner which brings into one category the Elizabethan dramatists or the contemporaries of Pope and Dry-den." 2 This means that, in spite of their supreme poetic gifts, Shelley and Keats fell short of complete fulfilment because they erupted as it were, into an age which was not organically ...
... words, 5 "from the prison of the formal metrical mould, rhetorical style, limited subject-matter, absence of imagination and vision imposed by the high pontiffs of the pseudo-classical cult [Dryden and Pope and Johnson] . ... Some pale effort is made to recover something of the Shakespearian wealth of language or of the softer, more pregnant colour of the pre-Restoration diction and to modify it to suit ...
... would have "poetical thinking or even poetical philosophy of a rather obvious kind, sedate, or vigorous, prompt and direct, or robustly power-ful". 19 Examples can be drawn from the work of Dryden and Pope, Cowper and Scott and Browning. On the vital plane the Teutonic element would be far more at home poetically than the Latin, for nervous vehemence and energy of character and rush of incident are natural ...
... Neo-Hinduism, Neo-Buddhism, Page 81 Neo-Mahomedanism, Neo-Christianity. The priests of Isis, the adepts & illuminati of Gnosticism, denied their triumph by the intervention of St Paul & the Pope, reborn into this latter age, claim now their satisfaction. Already some outworks of materialism are giving way, the attack grows more insistent, the defence more uncertain, less proudly self-confident ...
... mediaeval superstitions, we shall find that the intellectual conclusions of the rationalist for all their [. . .] pomp & profuse apparatus of scrupulous enquiry were as much dogmas as those former dicta of Pope & theologian, which confessed without shame their simple basis in the negation of reason. Much more do all those current opinions demand scrutiny & modification, which express our personal view of things ...
... will be against me, and to convince them I must be really strong, well armed and sure! Once I am ready, no one will be able to stop me. All governments and religions will collapse. I will write to the Pope, asking him what they are preaching now. What did Christ tell us in the Gospels! He told his apostles to go and heal the sick and drive demons away. What are the priests and the Catholics doing today ...
... with that woman"! But then, the Assumption?... Page 308 ( silence ) Of course, those who know understand very well—it's all symbolic. But for instance, I told you I spoke with the Pope for quite a long time the day of his election, and the conversation was abruptly interrupted by a reaction he had. (It was really a mental conversation we were having: I spoke, he replied, I heard his ...
... almost merging with the vowel-end of the preceding syllable. (The last foot — "... tuous mind" — of line 3 is also a glide-anapaest.) Now you are technically equipped to meet every situation. Pope, in his Essay on Man, wrote: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is Man. But if you know your feet you can even attempt the scansion of the poetry written ...
... output of this literary giant K.D. Sethna, who is constantly emptying his brains of its treasures by pouring them out in his writings; who writes with equal ease on the Vedas and the Bible (the Pope may with difficulty find one amongst his cardinals who knows so much about Christianity); who can write a book about the Black Lady on William Shakespeare and who can with credit break lances ...
... awake. This line is the shortest start of any epic. The Iliad has a dactylic line starting the theme with a greater number of syllables proper to the quantitative hexameter — a number which Pope is obliged to match by a full heroic couplet: Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess, sing! Virgil's Aeneid has two hexameters and ...
... Bysak, he declared, "Perhaps, you think I am very cruel, because I want to leave my parents. Ah! my Page 364 dear! I know that, and I feel for it. But 'to follow Poetry' (says A. Pope) 'one must leave father and mother'" (Chaudhuri 95). He dreamed of making his mark as an English poet. He left home, converted to Christianity, and went to England. His father disowned him and had it ...
... Chowdhury (Kobi) (A man who walked in his shadow) He ceas’d; but left so pleasing on the ear His voice, that list’ning still they seemed to hear. Homer (Odyssey; Translation: Pope) He is an exception to the series of “Among the Not So Great”. For, long before I thought of writing on him, he was great and well-known. He was commented upon by our Lord Himself. He called ...
... beast … Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey of all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl’d; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! (Alexander Pope, 1688-1744) The human, seen not only as his material body but in the total composition of his being, is a “microcosm,” thus called of old by people who seemed to know. The evolutionary layers which ...
... revival of occultism in its various aspects. Spiritism was one of the most important. The publication in 1857 of the Livre des Esprits (book of the spirits) by Allan Kardec, ere long called “the pope of spiritism,” resulted in the emergence of a real Church with millions of followers, and of which the ministers were mostly women, the mediums. The movement spread like wildfire in the West. 35 ...
... Spirits in 1857, which was reprinted again and again, and started publishing the “Spiritual Review” the next year. Soon the number of his followers ran into several millions and he was called “the pope of spiritism”. The chief centres of spiritism in Germany were Berlin, Leipzig, with its very active spiritist publishing house Verlag O. Mutze , and above all Munich – more specifically that colourful ...
... obviously more than scientism (i.e. dogmatic science) in the contemporary world. The adherents of the main religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, are counted in the hundreds of millions. The Pope draws crowds of hundreds of thousands; in the year 2001 the participants in the Kumbha Mela, at Allahabad in India, the greatest human gathering ever, numbered seventy million; tens of thousands have ...
... wise and knowing and strong as he is now. Of his first souls he has now no remembrance, And he will be again changed from his present soul … 34 In the Western “Age of Reason,” Alexander Pope wrote in his famous Essay on Man (1733): He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast … Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of ...
... God”. Those to be massacred would be “the rich, well-fed, loose-living clergy”, the chief enemy, who must be annihilated. “‘Go on hitting them’, cries [Frederick] the Messiah to his army, ‘from the Pope right down to the little clerics. Kill every one of them!’ He foresees that 2300 clerics will be killed each day for four and a half years.” Others to be slain are the money-lenders, rich merchants ...
... was no longer prosecuted, my case was shelved. No doubt, curiosity and suspicion haven't been allayed, but my life has gone back to routine, and after some time everyone will forget. I will see the Pope next month, and I may accompany him in his journey to Colombia at the end of August—I will keep you informed. There is still the difficulty of his health which may prevent the journey.... All that I ...
... remember, it was this Monsignor who sent a telegram to J. asking her to take P.L. in.... To me, these people will stop at nothing. All the more so as it must now be known that he tried to see the Pope and speak to him about the Ashram. Yes, of course! Before he left, he told me he'd had a dream. I think it's a personal symbol, but I don't know. He was in a vital world (he was being chased ...
... about to do something very hard and he needed my very active help.... So I gave four packets! It occurred to me to ask him to wire me as soon as he knows the date and time of his interview with the Pope. It's a good idea. It seems he is a minister's son.... I forget who he confided in, but he said his father is (or was) prime minister in [such and such a country], and he himself is a lawyer ...
... the ladder of consciousness, those manners of speaking become increasingly concrete, absolute, hard, and exclusive of all that isn't themselves: those are religions.... Oh, by the way, it seems the Pope was approached about Auroville and he asked if there would be a Catholic church!... They put the question to me. I said, "No. No churches, no temples." But it might be amusing if we put together ...
... understood. Now, the Italians worship the Virgin a lot, it's a lot in their makeup, and through that they would understand (those who are intelligent and see the symbol behind the story). There was a Pope (not the present one or the previous one, but the one before 1 ) who did remarkable things because he was in touch with the Virgin; he was a worshipper of the Virgin and that really put him on the ...
... This line is the shortest start of any epic. The Iliad has a dactylic line starting the theme with a greater number of syllables proper to the quantitative hexameter - a number which Pope is obliged to match by a full heroic couplet: Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly Goddess sing! Virgil's Aeneid has two hexameters and an extra ...
... For, such poetry has several kinds of movement. And in the age - the so-called English "Augustan" - which succeeded that of Milton we have a skilful language of the mind - the language of Dryden, Pope and others - yet without the natural nobility which moves in Milton. Rather there is a polished efficiency arranging glitters of thought. Even when a finer note is added, a tinge of truer feeling ...
... re-emerges; all finally settles into its place. What was held as sovereign in its own time is rudely dethroned but afterwards recovers not its sovereign throne but its due position in the world's esteem; Pope is an example and Byron who at once burst into a supreme glory and was the one English poet, after Shakespeare, admired all over Europe but is now depreciated, may also recover his proper place. ...
... chose could be used for all types of mystic poetry, for narrative verse, for all kinds of lyrical or epical forms. We can distinguish, not as in Milton's heroic style, or as in the heroic couplet of Pope or as in the lyrical verse of Keats, a style that was used for one purpose alone, but a style that is universal. Used in one context it is epical, in another it is narrative and in yet another it ...
... comes from admiration for and a deep sense of kinship with another poet. It changes one's whole poetic personality. 8 Many great authors have 3 Poets— Horace, Rajasekhara, Du Belley, Boileau, Pope, Wordsworth, Eliot, etc.—who have developed an ars poetica, have themselves, in the first place, applied their precepts. 4 Kuntaka, Vakroktijivita, UI.2. 5 Ulrich Weisstein, Comparative ...
... to science, every natural species makes its evolutionary appearance polygenerically - as a group - though mostly within a certain restricted cradle-area. But, as late as July 1966, the allocution of Pope Paul VI as communicated to the secular press suggests that polygenisrn 27.Christianity and Evolution, p. 190, fn. 5. 28.Op. cit„ p. 517. Page 119 spoils the ...
... the arts, but I doubt whether any English or French critic or prosodist would go so far as to turn to "Who killed Cock Robin?" for the true movement of English rhythm, putting aside Chaucer, Spenser, Pope or ____________________ 1. "Never does anyone who practises good come to woe" (Gita, 6.40). Page 307 Shelley as too cultivated and accomplished or too much under foreign influence ...
... one cast 432,000 pounds. The churches were filled; the rituals was more solemn here, and the prayers were more ecstatic, than in half-pagan papal Rome. The Russian priests — each of them a papa, or pope — wore awesome beards and flowing hair, and dark robes reaching to their feet (for legs are an impediment to dignity). They seldom mingled with the aristocracy or the court, but lived in modest ...
... . This was widely extended: it allowed the Roman Catholic Church to compete with the Greek Orthodox; it protected the Jesuits Page 58 even after the dissolution of their order by Pope Clement XIV (1773); it permitted the Volga Tatars to rebuild their mosques. Catherine admitted the Jews into Russia, but she subjected them to special taxes, and (possibly for their safety) confined ...
... able to do so requires a special bent of mind and a rare genre of capacity. One may be an erudite scholar, even a reputed lexicographer, but he may very well miss a subtle witty point. Did not the poet Pope remark: "A dictionary-maker might know the meaning of one word, but not of two put together!" Humour to be humour should not be spelt out in too explicit a way; much of it has to be conveyed by ...
... Power and the guardian of the Dharma, he did not have absolute power. But now we had a totally different system. The Muslim State in India was a theocracy and the Sultan was considered to be Caesar and Pope combined in one. His authority in religion was based on the Holy law of the Koran but in practice, he was an autocrat, unchecked by any restrictions and his word was law. The real source of his authority ...
... characteristic of this world. The hero is a recurrent emergent here. In him alas! good and evil intermingle, yet is he impressive in mould, whether his careerings end in defeat or success. King, Pope, Tyrant, all have their little hour of dominion, and then fade away. Power corrupts, absolute power often corrupts absolutely—"the harlot power that slays the soul". The artist and poet ...
... y elastic, medium for poetic expression, inexhaustible in its potentialities, rather comparable to blank verse in the Age of Shakespeare or heroic verse (or the couplet) in the Age of Dryden and Pope. It is said that the Adi-Kavi (the 'first' poet), Valmiki, was walking on the shores of the Yamuna one morning when he perceived a pair of kraunca birds in sportive play on the branch of a tree ...
... Savitri XIII TECHNIQUE AND INSPIRATION IN SAVITRI If the neatly and meaningfully balanced single lines in Savitri recall Pope, the richly elaborated similies must be conceded to be in the true epic manner, almost Miltonic in their impact though not in their technical organisation. Milton himself thought that the virtue of blank verse ...
... perhaps somewhere in between. Lower in the rung where the mental medium occupies a still more preponderant place we have intellectual poetry, poetry of the later classical age whose representatives are Pope and Dryden. We can go farther down and land in the domain of versification – although here, too, there can be a good amount of beauty in shape of ingenuity, cleverness and conceit: Voltaire and Delille ...
... fighting for Hitler. The dictators also find a competitor in God and religion. SRI AUROBINDO: But Mussolini didn't, though Mustafa Kamil did. Mussolini has, on the contrary, given more powers to the Pope and the Vatican. He has recognised the Roman Catholic Church as the State religion. PURANI: I read somewhere that Kamil in one of his drinking moods slapped an Egyptian because he came to the party ...
... even in India, and he often emphasized that religion and spirituality are not necessarily synonymous: True theocracy , he would write later, is the kingdom of God in man and not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. 7 When he began his life in London, at the age of twelve, Sri Aurobindo knew Latin and French thoroughly. The headmaster of St. Paul's School, where he had ...
... a diversity of themes, and what a variety of approaches! The twelve great masters of style: Aeschylus and Dante: Dante and Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Blake: the poetry of the school of Dryden and Pope: Shelley's Skylark: Baudelaire's "vulgarity": Anatole France's "ironising": Walter de la Mare's Listeners: five kinds of poetic style: austerity in poetry: architectonics in poetic composition: ...
... 20. Ibid., p. 117 21. Ibid., p. 121 22. Ibid., p. 124 23. Ibid., p. 174 24. Ibid., p. 186 25. Ibid., p. 202 26. Alexander Pope, Art Essay on Maw Book II 27. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 217 28. Ibid., p. 249, 250 29. Ibid., p. 269 30. Ibid., p. 270 31. V. Chandrasekharan, ...
... masking something else that masks something else that masks something else—but where is the Thing? Indeed, we have a whole succession of truths, which as long as they last are as infallible as the Pope or the Sorbonne—but they pass, and the next one is just as irrefutable, until it, too, passes; meanwhile we are stuck, stuck up to the neck, but it is scientific and historical —not for Mirra. She was ...
... greatest authority that beyond these scientific and medical bars lies “death” – which is simply the death of their science. Those are simply the conditions of their life inside the prison. The pope of fish wouldn't have said it any differently. We are totally mistaken when we regard death as a corpse that has been unfortunate enough to deviate from the medical chart or to be crushed beneath ...
... are a matter of chronology and climate, and it would be highly unphilosophical and unpractical of me to be guided by them as if I were Christ or Moses. ... Still I am a Christian and the nephew of a Pope, so my anchor holds, yes, my anchor holds." And, for a final illustration, there was the castigation of the whole class of Anglo-Indian administrators, both during their stay in India and after ...
... Page 130 wrote James Shreeve, "was abruptly extinguished with the capture of the ruler Moctezuma by Spaniards seeking gold, glory and souls." 1 "A harvest of souls," says the present Pope. The Christians were, and are, bent on converting the natives. Converted— more often by force than otherwise—"by their conquerors, native laborers and artisans erected Roman Catholic shrines and churches ...
... lethargy of millions of Catholics asleep in the routine of unconscious religious practice. 1 Here are the most important names in the committee: X Italy's cardinal; Y, France's cardinal; Z, the Pope's factotum; then Msgr. Z... That same man. "...and me!... The meetings will take place 'sub secreto Page 299 specialissimo,' a formula equivalent to 'top secret.'" Oh, he'll... meditation for a long time ) Still, that you should have a man in this gang is a victory. Yes. Page 300 I was looking at this: what can we do? ( Mother shakes her head ) Adopt his [the Pope's] program? Awaken those...? Five hundred million. I don't see what we can do. Unless they construct something false, but then it won't have any force. "Christ's reincarnation"? ( Mother ...
... you have anything? Yes, news from the Vatican. Oh!... tell me, it's interesting. P.L. has sent photos of the man supposed to be doing magic. You know that he is an intimate friend of the Pope's, his private collaborator, and at the same time archbishop at the State Secretariat of the Holy See. Here's his photo. Oh, he wears such a big hat! ( Mother looks for a long time ) And what ...
... sprightly-forcible manner of Browning's God's in his heaven, All's right with the world, or to strike the balance in a sense of equality with the pointed and ever quotable intellectuality of Pope's God sees with equal eyes as lord of all A hero perish or a sparrow fall. This may be the poetical or half-poetical language of thought and sentiment; it is not the language of real poetic... Browning's language rises from a robust cheerfulness of temperament, it does not touch the deeper fountain-heads of truth in us; an opposite temperament may well smile at it as vigorous optimistic fustian. Pope's actually falsifies by its poetical inadequacy that great truth of the Gita's teaching, the truth of the divine equality, because he has not seen and therefore cannot make us see; his significant images ...
... on earth our universal critic means by his Italian republics? There were republics in mediaeval Italy, but we did not know that Naples and Sicily were republics under King Bomba, or Rome under the Popes, or Tuscany under the Grand Duke, or Lombardy under the Austrians, or Sardinia and Piedmont under the descendants of Victor Amadeus. Then again Mr. Ghose has "observed" that the different States of ...
... abused the Ashram in coarse language—the priest received the order to keep quiet and stop talking slanderously. And now it's general, no one says anything about the Ashram. Then you know that on the Pope's order, all the altars have been turned around; U. was asked to do it, he did it in all of Pondicherry's churches; so the archbishop wrote a note, saying, "Please thank the Mother because her children ...
... man has reached the mental stage of his evolutionary career is "an interregnum in Reality", a mid-region, shall we say, between the dusk that has gone and the flame that is to come. In Alexander Pope's words, man finds himself at the fluid junction between two continents: Plac'd on this Isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too ...
... confirmed by Hitler himself. Wagner’s Rienzi is based on the life of Cola di Rienzo (1313-54), the tribune who wanted to restore the glory of a corrupt and decadent Rome at the time that the Popes were residing in Avignon. Born in a humble family, Cola di Rienzo, in 1347, took up the gauntlet with the noble families who were de facto rulers of the city and oppressed the lower classes. Cola’s ...
... a few days later, they managed to demand a Collegiate examination (by a neurologist, who, I believe, had been ordered to declare me 'ill,' an endocrinologist, an expert in general medicine, and the Pope's physician] hence the cry of the child running to his mother: my telegram asking for Mother's protection. On Sunday the 7th, I had a dream: Mother came into a sort of huge warehouse, where I was lying ...
... technique to do him justice. You can see for yourself what a world of contrast is there between Sri Aurobindo's rendering of that line and Alexander Pope's in the eighteenth-century pentameter: Silent he wander'd by the sounding main. Not that Pope's line is a pure "flop": he has tried to get something Page 374 of the boom of the waters by his n and m resonances, but I feel ...
... many unfulfilled shadows have wanted to catch the stars and the disappeared continents but have always come back on their same conquering steps... of Nothing. So they invented heavens over there and Popes and various Allahs to dominate and burn alive or cut throats and convert these same creatures to their only God the savior who only saves his own bank account, and nothing of this old two legged "I" ...
... things will happen. There will be terrible destruction—communism will be established everywhere, in England, France, Germany. In England there will be two more dynasties of kings. There will be two more Popes. A new race will come but only after a long age. The time-factor, he says, is problematic. Calculating according to the human year, the astrologers can only speak of events near at hand; far-off events ...
... Sri Aurobindo's colossal work of mystical philosophy, The Life Divine, I was continually struck to find how much of his visionary structure was covered by the lucid couplets and fourfold plan of Pope's Essay." 63 Besides the Commedia and the Essay on Man, various other works too, the Summa Theologica, for example, have been pointedly compared with The Life Divine. It is ...
... many have been the golden moments when we have tossed to and fro some problem of scansion and, discussing the lines of the Supramental Avatar's compositions, gone most enjoyably against Alexander Pope's advice: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. I have been in close touch with him during his lucky days when he was not only one of ...
... All observed astronomical phenomena were admirably accounted for by theories of spheres and I know not what else, before Galileo came in with his "And yet it moves," disturbing the infallibility of Popes and Bibles and the science and logic of the learned. One feels certain that admirable theories could be invented to account for the facts of gravitation if our intellects were not prejudiced and pr ...
... elated by whatever happens but being "equal" to all vicissitudes is not to lose one's sense of the shades of things. When the self in us - the Purusha - stands back and watches somewhat like Alexander Pope's God Who sees, with equal eyes as lord of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, we need not, by giving up personal reactions, give up noting the distinction between a hero and a sparrow ...
... happened, again and again, that the hostile suggestion or impulse did get admitted in spite of my resolution to shut it out. To put it differently, the more I watched myself the more I was reminded of Pope's Essay on Man: Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. And, we do not merely rebel, but also refuse to learn from our past mistakes, insist ...
... a nobler kind" ] is poor poetry. It is not only just the line that is needed to introduce what follows but it is very good poetry with the strength and pointed directness, not intellectualised like Pope's, but intuitive, which we often find in the Elizabethans, for instance in Marlowe supporting adequately and often more than adequately his "mighty lines". But the image must be understood, as it was... wrong place, something discordant with the surroundings and inferior in beauty to all that is near it; if so, she is not a careful housewife but a slattern. The Muse has a careful housewife,—there is Pope's, perfect in the classical or pseudo-classical style or Tennyson's, in the romantic or semi romantic manner, while as a contrast there is Browning's with her energetic and rough-and-tumble dash and ...
... expressive vehicle for the charge of the spirit. His was not a "dim religious light" in a Gothic cathedral, but a solar orb of golden mass spreading its radiance in the wideness of heaven. Alexander Pope's "there is a majesty and harmony in the Greek language, which greatly contribute to elevate and support the narration" is even more true for the ancient writers of India who used Sanskrit as the language ...
... his undoing from all the tribes of Israel, with all the curses of the firmament which are written in the book of the law.’” 8 Excommunication was common practice in the Catholic Church also. Some popes excommunicated whole nations, thereby, at least in intention, sending the souls of their people to burn in hell for eternity, and this every so often for the basest political or financial motives. ...
... expressive vehicle for the charge of the spirit. His was not a "dim religious tight" in a Gothic cathedral, but a solar orb of golden mass spreading its radiance in the wideness of heaven. Alexander Pope's "there is a majesty and harmony in the Greek language, which greatly contribute to elevate and support the narration" is even more true for the ancient writers of India who used Sanskrit as the language ...
... be rather old. Assassins, too. Our ideas, too – one more coil round the great snake? Darwin studied iguanas, turtles and armadillos – they at least lend themselves to study, and fossilize without popes or pomp, without ideology either. But after all, the little fishes too change shirts, and one thing leading to another, or one shirt to another, they end up being proper men Page 10 – by ...
... guide-line. Not that their historical record is all white; far from it. Not only has Voltaire scathed them with his irony: Pascal before him scalded them in his famous Provincial Letters and even the Popes have repeatedly condemned them (1710, 1715, 1742, 1745). Their Order was dissolved several times, but they somehow came up fighting and rendered signal services to the Church and proved most proficient ...
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