Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade's End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing.
Thus was born the Grand Tour, the procession of silken-trousered young men known in Italy as "milordi" who poured into the country, fed at what they considered the fount of knowledge and beauty, and returned home after two or three years with paintings, sculptures, statues and antiquities to install at their country estates and in town houses throughout the British Isles.
As her title suggests, Mozley has drunk deep at the fount of Ted Hughes and has written a dark hymn to the landscape and language of Yorkshire that's also, like Hughes's poetry, bleak, lyrical and steeped in blood.
For Muslims-who consider Muhammad's teachings the fount of wisdom and the beacon of guidance in all things, mundane and sublime-these sayings provide a direct window into the inspired vision of one of the most influential humans to have walked the Earth.
That delusion makes him the fount of violence, and it is why President Reagan's stand that persuasion and common sense alone will turn Mr. Botha around is a dangerous fallacy.
A: In both Eastern tradition -- and strains of Kabbalistic tradition -- the Creator, which is the fount of fertility and birth -- has, almost by definition, a strong feminine dimension.
In which context I was struck recently by a remark made to me by an old Treasury friend, now retired, whom I had always regarded as the fount of orthodoxy and the "Treasury View" (that is, an ultra-cautious approach to spending and borrowing, and the introduction of restrictive measures at the slightest opportunity).
It demonstrated the truth of a sentiment expressed by the author JK Rowling: Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.
