The Greater Victorian PoetsS. Sonnenschein and Company, 1895 - 332 pages |
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... ideas of the time in which they lived . This fact , which ought to be evident , has to some extent been obscured by the indiscriminating way in which it has become customary to speak of the greatest authors , Shakespeare in particular ...
... ideas of the time in which they lived . This fact , which ought to be evident , has to some extent been obscured by the indiscriminating way in which it has become customary to speak of the greatest authors , Shakespeare in particular ...
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... idea of a universal reign of law , grasped , before the present century , only by a few choice minds , but now the property of all who can think ; the idea of the ultimate oneness of the great forces of nature ; above all the idea of ...
... idea of a universal reign of law , grasped , before the present century , only by a few choice minds , but now the property of all who can think ; the idea of the ultimate oneness of the great forces of nature ; above all the idea of ...
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... ideas upon life , with its hopes and fears , and impulses and aspirations , a storehouse so rich that it has furnished material for half the great modern poets from Dante to Tennyson . What was the view of the later Greeks themselves ...
... ideas upon life , with its hopes and fears , and impulses and aspirations , a storehouse so rich that it has furnished material for half the great modern poets from Dante to Tennyson . What was the view of the later Greeks themselves ...
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... ideas of the profoundest kind about life and human destiny ? If we come farther down , what are the writings of Shakespeare and Goethe but treasuries of ideas applied to life ? Who can doubt that Milton , much as he moves in regions of ...
... ideas of the profoundest kind about life and human destiny ? If we come farther down , what are the writings of Shakespeare and Goethe but treasuries of ideas applied to life ? Who can doubt that Milton , much as he moves in regions of ...
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... ideas here applied to life are of the poetic order , and they are displayed in the garb of beauty . But at the same time there is an underlying matter which it is perfectly easy to translate into the language of exact thought . Or ...
... ideas here applied to life are of the poetic order , and they are displayed in the garb of beauty . But at the same time there is an underlying matter which it is perfectly easy to translate into the language of exact thought . Or ...
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Page 322 - Behold, we know not anything ; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry.
Page 320 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 240 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 19 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 106 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 9 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 301 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 323 - Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 66 - OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 218 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.