Nettleship

Green rejected the orthodox Christian belief that, in Nettleship's words, Jesus “was born and died under conditions [which are] impossible to other human beings” (Nettleship, p. c).

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

(Nettleship, p. xxv) (Nettleship records that Green read more Fichte towards the end of his life, yet implies that Green did not study him in depth at that time (Nettleship, pp. cxxv-cxxvi).)

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

It should be clear by now that Nettleship was correct to ask in what sense Green was a Christian.

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

Nettleship records that Green read Fichte as a young man: ˜The writers from whom he seems at this time to have assimilated the most were Wordsworth, Carlyle, Maurice, and probably Fichte in his lectures on the "nature" and "vocation" of "the scholar" and of "man."™

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

Wilson, Page, Nettleship, Potter are the names I remember, and at North End I remember them most clearly.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

If I had been able to give angelical or diabolical names to his lions I might have liked them also and I think that Nettleship himself would have liked them better and liking them better have become a better painter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

And yet those who knew him better than I assured me he could find quarrel in a straw; and I did know that he had quarrelled a few years back with Jack Nettleship.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Nettleship said to me, ‘Has Edwin Ellis85 ever said anything about the effect of drink upon my genius?’

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

My father had written from Fitzroy Road in the sixties that the brotherhood, by which he meant the poet Edwin Ellis, Nettleship and himself, ‘abhorred Wordsworth’; and Dowden, not remembering that another week would bring a different mood and abhorrence, had written a pained and solemn letter.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Sometimes I would urge him to put himself, as Jack Nettleship had done, into an Institute.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965