Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
art follow follows half instinct sort trust
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
lived newest nine north quarter till
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
eye two church
Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
secret alive journalism
The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.
literature realizing enough
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
may failing mischief
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
age generations helping
Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!
personality slavery chains
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
nature color delight
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...
thinking mind doe
Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
girl summer book
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
teacher clever children
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
mind belief conviction
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
christian teacher joy
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.