Quotes by Joseph Jacobs - Page 1

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Forgiveness
Difficult
Lessons
Moral
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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Dialect
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The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
British Empire
Fate
Bids
Empire
Greeks
Resemble
Romans
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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Fairy
Incidents
Plot
Tales
Treatment
Differ
Fairy Tales
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Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Ambition
Fairy
Nurse
Tales
Fairy Tales
Generally
Speaking
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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Work
Men
Successful
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Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Consistent
Heroes
Nowhere
Large
Mythical
Oral
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The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Relation
Twentieth Century
Discoveries
Immediate
Twentieth
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In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Monsters
Fairies
Flourishes
Vigour
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The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Extraordinary
Giants
Taken
Words
Accordingly
Animals
Fairies
Fairy Tales
Include
Occurs
Speaking
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One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Curiosity
Discovery
Motive
Begins
Captain
Geographical
Properly
Purely
Scientific
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The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Celtic
Term
Collected
Numbered
Story-Telling
Vigour
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Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Evidence
Transmission
Abundant
Considerable
Literary
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The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Glimpse
Passing
Possessed
Afforded
Greeks
Homer
Inhabitants
Notions
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Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Fifteen
France
Possessed
Tales
Date
Collected
Equally
Italy
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The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Saturday
Truth Is
Truth Me Important
Differ
Origin
Reviewer
Tale
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Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Genre
Models
Obscure
Remains
Romance
Tales
Belong
Origin
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Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Admission
Chivalry
Commerce
Noble
Permanent
Extreme
Bonds
Formed
Orders
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Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Bounds
Wondrous
Equally
Forth
Stepped
Walls
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The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Chivalry
Christendom
Crusades
Eastern
Flower
Interrupted
Spiritual
Western
Brought
Churches
Union
Restored
Roman
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I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Conclusion
Fables
Slave
Tales
Derived
Goodly
Whence
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In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.
Joseph Jacobs / Critic
Identical
Incidents
Volume
Cox
Formula
Widespread
Showing
Substantially
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