Mastership

And in destroying them they attempted to honour God by something displeasing to Him; and to use the language of men, God was angry with all destroyers of the works of great mastership, which is only attained by much toil, labour, and expenditure of time, and is bestowed by God alone. ❋ T. Sturge Moore (1907)

Shakespeare's dramas -- not all of them indeed, but those which were written after he reached what may be called his mastership -- are in the highest sense of term Works of Art, and as such embody to the full the principles set forth in the preceding section. ❋ Henry Norman Hudson (1850)

Shakespeare's dramas ” not all of them indeed, but those which were written after he reached what may be called his mastership ” are in the highest sense of term Works of Art, and as such embody to the full the principles set forth in the preceding section. ❋ Hudson, H N (1872)

On the surface of the cloth stream that poured past him, he pictured radiant futures wherein he performed prodigies of toil, invented miraculous machines, won to the mastership of the mills, and in the end took her in his arms and kissed her soberly on the brow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think his existential themes and effects of philosophical confusion are very interesting, but other authors, such as Gene Wolfe, handle them with greater ease and mastership of style. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He holds that women must be kept in subjection, writing: "Woe unto the Race if ever these loveable creatures should break loose from mastership, and become the rulers or equals of Man." ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Love, Women, and War" Redbeard opines that women "are incapable of self-mastership ... mere babies in worldly concerns." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Regalo and he were a good match: Regalo could pass along his mastership of dealing with people and helping them on the Earth, and Raindance could contribute his sense of the mystery of life and ethereal beauty. ❋ Penelope Smith (2009)

His dream had been to get a headship eventually, or at any rate a senior mastership in a really first-class school; it was only gradually, after repeated trials and failures, that he realized the inadequacy of his qualifications. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was not until 1766, long after his first successes and after some of his students in Rouen had been received as master dyers there, that Gonin asked for a mastership in that community. 4 His interest in being named a master dyer, he noted, was to secure protection for his son Gilbert, whose dyehouse had been subjected to harassment from the community. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He wrote “I became a Socialist because, as soon as the case for a society of equals, set free from the twin evils of riches and poverty, mastership and subjection, was put to me, I knew that to be the only kind of society that could be consistent with human decency and fellowship and that in no other society could I have the right to be content.” ❋ Harry Barnes (2008)

Mrs. Bumble, seeing at a glance, that the decisive moment had now arrived, and that a blow struck for the mastership on one side or other, must necessarily be final and conclusive, no sooner heard this allusion to the dead and gone, than she dropped into a chair, and with a loud scream that Mr. Bumble was a hard – hearted brute, fell into a paroxysm of tears. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet, in verity, I had no skill to manage this, neither had it flown, through an hundred thousand years; so that none did know the mastership of that art, which did be learned but by a constant practice, and oft made uneasy by fallings that did wreck the machine, as I did know from the Book of Flying. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Saj was an important criterion for evaluating an author's mastership and style; saj experts, including Zamakhshari, were well known throughout the Orient. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Shortly after assuming the mastership of his first school he had obtained an introduction to the Bishop of a diocese far from his native county, who had looked upon him as a promising young man and taken him in hand. ❋ Unknown (2006)