Rather he is a sort of divine dupe, who does not pardon at all, because he does not see anything that is going on. It may, or may not, be true to say, "Tout comprendre est tout pardonner." But it is much more evidently true to say, "Rien comprendre est rien Pardonner," and the "Third Floor Back" does not seem to comprehend anything. He might, after all, be a quite selfish sentimentalist, who found it comforting to think well of his neighbours. There is nothing very heroic in loving after you have been deceived. The heroic business is to love after you have been undeceived.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Invention in painting does not imply the invention of the subject, for that is commonly supplied by the poet or historian. With respect to the choice, no subject can be proper that is not generally interesting. It ought to be either some eminent instance of heroic action or heroic suffering. There must be something either in the action or in the object in which men are universally concerned, and which powerfully strikes upon the public sympathy.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
Thus he quotes from Gay, and you applaud the aptness of the quotation, until you discover that already it was used by Steele in his appreciation of the heroic Smith! However, Johnson has his uses, and those to whom the masterpiece of Captain Alexander is inaccessible will turn with pleasure to the General History of the lives and adventures of the most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c., and will feel no regret that for once they are receiving stolen goods.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings, spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
What matter whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth, the thing thou seekest is already with thee, here or nowhere, couldest thou only see."英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
"The reason that date is, like, "so totally fixed in my memory "is that I had the privilege to be witness To one of the most heroic acts I've ever seen in, like, ever." "And who performed that heroic act?" "Why, you did, sir.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
'Cause I miss Rake every day. just as my beautiful wife, Lara, misses her heroic brother Dean.美剧 · 《Billions》
Ugh, no! Maybe that's what flawed, sad fatties want from other celebrities, but for BoJack Horseman, they want a heroic horse-stud who is awesome and who can save them from their flawed, sad, fatty lives.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Those guys are jizzin' their pants over your heroic admission of your struggle with depression, and they wanna help you share your story with the world.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》