 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1917 - 582 pages
..."Welcome, 0 life!" he bids farewell to his young manhood. "I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead." I know nothing of Mr. James Joyce,... | |
 | Herbert Sherman Gorman - Ireland - 1924 - 262 pages
...not yet come into the world. So he goes. Welcome, O life ! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. And it is with the thought of Dedalos and his osier-bound wings that he goes. Old father, old artificer,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1926 - 462 pages
...dienen, was mein Glauben ablehnt, c Welcome, O lifel I go to encounter for the millionth time the soul of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Old father, old artifer*), stana mt now and euer in good stedd (299). In ein triumphierendes Eingangslied... | |
 | Monad Rrenban - Art - 2005 - 440 pages
...what the heart is and what it feels. . . . Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. . . ." P, 253). The uncreated conscience of any race is death as the necessity, but (as indicated already)... | |
 | Derek Attridge - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...final statement of his artistic intentions: 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race' (P 213). Here Stephen expresses his desire that he will become not only a conduit for carrying the... | |
 | Ian Pindar - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 200 pages
...that food of the spirit by which a nation of human beings is sustained in life.'"' the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy...of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race}"' Yeats suggested Joyce might turn his hand to book reviews and James Joyce, Exiles ( 1 9 1 8) invited... | |
 | Eugene Goodheart - Literary Criticism - 252 pages
...when he asserts ("declaims" may be the more fitting word): "1 go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" (Portrait 218). Or does Stephen's gloomy appearance in Ulysses confirm the suspicion of many readers... | |
 | John Moss, John George Moss, Linda M. Morra - 2004 - 268 pages
...of education of consciousness. He then paraphrased Joyce, "I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience"—not "of my race" but "of my age. » It was a terrific first class; the next few classes... | |
 | Vincent B. Sherry - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 156 pages
...mission he announces at the end of the novel represents a fusion of the personal and the collective: "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" (P, 25 3). Great hubris breathes here, of course: Stephen's rhetorical personality remains committed... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 2004 - 236 pages
..."foundation." The word "forge" is used by people who never saw one. Joyce has the young Stephen Dedalus vow "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." Granted that the mature author used rhetorical inflation to satirize his younger self,Joyce and his... | |
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. 
