The Greater Victorian PoetsS. Sonnenschein and Company, 1895 - 332 pages |
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... speak of the age of Pericles or of Elizabeth , or of the period of the French Revolution , we mean that there was in those ages a movement in literature bearing conspicuously the impress of its connexion with the history of the time ...
... speak of the age of Pericles or of Elizabeth , or of the period of the French Revolution , we mean that there was in those ages a movement in literature bearing conspicuously the impress of its connexion with the history of the time ...
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... speak of the greatest authors , Shakespeare in particular , as " not of an age , but for all time " . It is true that poets , philosophers , artists , statesmen , and great men of all sorts , if they are only great enough , are for all ...
... speak of the greatest authors , Shakespeare in particular , as " not of an age , but for all time " . It is true that poets , philosophers , artists , statesmen , and great men of all sorts , if they are only great enough , are for all ...
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... speaking , criticise life , their principal function is to reveal its meaning . " The proper study of mankind is man " . Even if the poet turns his eye upon inanimate nature or upon the lower animal creation , it generally proves that ...
... speaking , criticise life , their principal function is to reveal its meaning . " The proper study of mankind is man " . Even if the poet turns his eye upon inanimate nature or upon the lower animal creation , it generally proves that ...
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... speak , keeping himself out of view . Nevertheless , in deference to public prejudice , he determines to take his stand , " motley on back and pointing pole in hand , " beside his character . It may be observed that it is difficult to ...
... speak , keeping himself out of view . Nevertheless , in deference to public prejudice , he determines to take his stand , " motley on back and pointing pole in hand , " beside his character . It may be observed that it is difficult to ...
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... speak , absorbs all beauty in itself , not that which allows itself to be absorbed in the object loved . In his ideal there is sympathy , but the end of the sympathy is to enable him to make everything his own . It is by virtue of it ...
... speak , absorbs all beauty in itself , not that which allows itself to be absorbed in the object loved . In his ideal there is sympathy , but the end of the sympathy is to enable him to make everything his own . It is by virtue of it ...
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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.