 | James Joyce - 1916 - 318 psl.
...heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. 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. April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. THE END Dublin, 1904. Trieste,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1917 - 582 psl.
..."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 - 1924 - 262 psl.
...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 - 1926 - 462 psl.
...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... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1941 - 276 psl.
...heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O lifel 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. On the eve of departure he makes his final entry: April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now... | |
 | Vijay Agnew - 2003 - 308 psl.
...Indeed, I began thinking like James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus: "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." 3 Many of the students who take my courses are children of European or Third World immigrants. But... | |
 | Paul Fussell - 2002 - 228 psl.
...precious individual resonates all through modernist writing. Joyce's Stephen Dedalus says fervently, "I go to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." Not, notice, We and our souls. There, the group to be escaped from is the Irish lower middle class,... | |
 | Nicholas Ind - 2003 - 262 psl.
...so many brands fail.) What gets in the way of authenticity? Woody Allen once described his ambition to 'forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. And then see if I can get them mass-produced in plastic' (Allen, 1975). This brilliantly summarizes... | |
 | Sean Latham - 2003 - 260 psl.
...taste" (West 15). 122 pompous claim at the close of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that "[I will] forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race," even as his mother packs his "new secondhand clothes" (252-53). Similarly, Gabriel Conroy's deep concern... | |
 | Ethan H. Shagan - 2003 - 364 psl.
...the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's alter ego Stephen Dedalus famously described his ambition to 'forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race'.8 The word 'forge' in this context was a typically Joycean pun: to create a conscience was necessarily... | |
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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. 
