Word: inwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...title page of Christopher Morley's new book, "Inward Ho!" the twentieth century poet has inserted the words of his brother Keats: "Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, sping from his own inwards his own airy Citadel--the points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting...
...Inward Ho!" is not poetry but it was written by a poet. In fact Morley thought of the volume as sort of eccentric text book for students and wanted to call it "Preliminary Ejaculations Tending Toward an Understanding of the Meaning of Poetry," but when he wrote that down on the title page it looked too formidable...
...that of the Government. During his recent tour of France he says the people energetically supported the Ruhr policy, giving vent to their approval in cries of "Stick it out! " "Don't budge!" "We are with you!" "Don't worry!" Despite these outward manifestations there is an inward tendency on the part of the Government to accede to the growing demands of organized labor and the big industrialists for an early Ruhr peace...
...mere detail of giving a letter to non-athletes is of minor importance. But the clamoring for "recognition" indicates that too many institutions are tainted by that smallness of soul which regards outward display more than inward satisfaction. The colleges should be the first to realize that a "cum laude" without power is irony. Their ideal should be the spirit of true craftsmanship, the desire to do something, not for a specious reward, but for the sake of doing...
...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...