The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, Volume 2 |
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Page 292 - The happiness which forms the standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator." As to whose happiness was meant by that of " other people,
Page 326 - He may be said to have become the literal duplicate of that whimsical unknown rhapsodist who wrote of his own similar situation : " By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close comer of my brain ; There I embrace and kiss her ; And so I both
Page 180 - art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate. The lady is Ethelberta, to the shade of a hair—her living face ; and the
Page 277 - shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them ; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say, I will go and return to
Page 50 - The subject now flitted to the other end. " Somebody has it that when the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains," came from a voice in that quarter. " I, for my part, like something merry,
Page 292 - As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Page 120 - No ; I am indifferent about it all. Perhaps it would have been better for me if I had never seen her ; and possibly it might have been better for her if she had never seen me. She has a heart, and the heart is a troublesome
Page 292 - This being, according to the utilitarian opinion, the end of human action, is necessarily also the standard of morality.
Page 201 - streets towards Barbican ; till turning out of that thoroughfare into Redcross street they beheld the bold shape of the old tower they sought, clothed in every neutral shade, standing clear against the sky, dusky and grim in its upper stage and hoary gray
Page 294 - Ethelberta could almost doubt herself to be the identical woman with her who had entered on a romantic career a few short years ago. For that doubt she had good reason. She had begun as a poet of the Satanic school in a sweetened form ; she was ending as