The Greater Victorian PoetsS. Sonnenschein and Company, 1895 - 332 pages |
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... true that poets , philosophers , artists , statesmen , and great men of all sorts , if they are only great enough , are for all time ; but it is equally true that even the greatest of them are of their own age first of all . We need ask ...
... true that poets , philosophers , artists , statesmen , and great men of all sorts , if they are only great enough , are for all time ; but it is equally true that even the greatest of them are of their own age first of all . We need ask ...
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... true than of the great poet . The minor verse - writer skims the ⚫ surface of life ; nothing human is alien from his greater brother . This is our guarantee for asking of the poets some response to almost every question that can be put ...
... true than of the great poet . The minor verse - writer skims the ⚫ surface of life ; nothing human is alien from his greater brother . This is our guarantee for asking of the poets some response to almost every question that can be put ...
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... true master if the town but knew ! We merely kept a governor for form , While this man walked about and took account Of all thought , said and acted , then went home And wrote it fully to our Lord the King . The question however cannot ...
... true master if the town but knew ! We merely kept a governor for form , While this man walked about and took account Of all thought , said and acted , then went home And wrote it fully to our Lord the King . The question however cannot ...
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... true work of his life was to transform the hard , narrow and unattractive Puritan ideal into an ideal of beauty . In carrying out this work he necessarily soared above commonplace Puritanism ; but he never ceased to be one of the ...
... true work of his life was to transform the hard , narrow and unattractive Puritan ideal into an ideal of beauty . In carrying out this work he necessarily soared above commonplace Puritanism ; but he never ceased to be one of the ...
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... true itself , is seen if we compare Milton with the Cavalier poets . These men practically adopted the more limited view of poetry , as something concerned only with the beautiful , only meant to titillate the aesthetic sense and to ...
... true itself , is seen if we compare Milton with the Cavalier poets . These men practically adopted the more limited view of poetry , as something concerned only with the beautiful , only meant to titillate the aesthetic sense and to ...
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Page 324 - 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 108 - 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 322 - 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 242 - 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 21 - 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 11 - 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 303 - 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 109 - Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, The grand Perhaps ! We look on helplessly.
Page 250 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book; No longer half-akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did.
Page 114 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!