 | Alan Wilde - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...Pynchon's sympathies are deployed differently: specifically, in accordance with Eliot's dictum that "it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing."19 As this invocation of Eliot (and of Conrad) suggests, what is at issue is an often anguished... | |
 | Michael Herzfeld, Lucio Melazzo - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 1348
...being a positive good over death can be found in something Eliot once said in reference to Baudelaire: "So far as we are human, what we do must be either...paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing; at least, we exist.")2 Thus the rhyme functions to suggest that the seemingly unrelated images and allusions be... | |
 | Martin Scofield - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...parents did not talk of good and evil, but of what was 'done' and 'not done'; whereas he himself wrote, 'So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good' ('Baudelaire', 1930, in Selected Essays). What the religion of his family lacked was a sense of passion,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist So far as we are human, what we do must be either...to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. TS Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 1214
...escape from. GEORGE ELIOT (101 9-BO), English novelist, editar. Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 57 (1876). 14 e horizons; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels...of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like TS ELIOT (1888-19651, Anglo-American poet, critic. The Intimaieloumats of Charles Baudelaire. 'Baudelaire,*... | |
 | William H. Houff - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...inescapable as death itself. In the introduction written for Baudelaire's Intimate Journal, he tells us, "So far as we are human, what we do must be either...good; so far as we do evil or good, we are human. . . ." Few would deny that in these two statements, TS Eliot has grasped one of the essentials of the... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...which Greene quotes approvingly (in an essay called "Henry James: The Religious Aspect" [Essays 50]): So far as we are human, what we do must be either...we do evil or good, we are human; and it is better ... to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. It is true to say that the glory of man is his... | |
 | Brian Diemert - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...Morton Dauwen Zabel (36). 17 Eliot's remarks are based on Revelation y. 14-16 and read as follows: "So far as we are human, what we do must be either...to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that... | |
 | B. C. Southam - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...upon the hollow men, particularly those speaking lines 15-18, in Eliot's essay on 'Baudelaire' (1930): So far as we are human, what we do must be either...to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...colonial employees, though it is far more unsettling. Conrad's view here is an extension of TS Eliot's: So far as we are human, what we do must be either...to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation; it is also true to say that... | |
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good; so far as we do evil or good, we are human; and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. 
