Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern LifeIsbister, 1894 - 490 pages |
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... whose eyes are steadily fixed on the beautiful , always loves , and is always young . Moreover , the true artist has written on his heart , " Love not the world , nor the things of the world , " and this , in spite of many INTRODUCTION 15.
... whose eyes are steadily fixed on the beautiful , always loves , and is always young . Moreover , the true artist has written on his heart , " Love not the world , nor the things of the world , " and this , in spite of many INTRODUCTION 15.
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... young moralist , " all these duties , I have kept from my youth up . What lack I yet ? " That was the cry of the ideal in him : the inward longing for something more than conduct - for the un- known perfection . And Jesus , answering ...
... young moralist , " all these duties , I have kept from my youth up . What lack I yet ? " That was the cry of the ideal in him : the inward longing for something more than conduct - for the un- known perfection . And Jesus , answering ...
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... young emotions of the present contend with grey - haired theories of the past , became a much more actual consideration in all national life after 1832. That idea is not only freedom to speak the thing we will , or freedom of act or ...
... young emotions of the present contend with grey - haired theories of the past , became a much more actual consideration in all national life after 1832. That idea is not only freedom to speak the thing we will , or freedom of act or ...
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... young . different spirit inflames the lines which begin : And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow , When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow . A That , and the rest of them , smack of the ...
... young . different spirit inflames the lines which begin : And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow , When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow . A That , and the rest of them , smack of the ...
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... young man of Locksley Hall repents when he is old of almost all the enthusiasms of his youth : Forward far and far from here is all the hope of eighty years . In the very last book , the " Ghost of the Brute " in men may be laid , but ...
... young man of Locksley Hall repents when he is old of almost all the enthusiasms of his youth : Forward far and far from here is all the hope of eighty years . In the very last book , the " Ghost of the Brute " in men may be laid , but ...
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Page 373 - The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 101 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Page 206 - HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 120 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 83 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand; Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 371 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 439 - The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in this was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, Ionian music measuring out The steps of Time - the shocks of Chance The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro
Page 242 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls...
Page 296 - In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 101 - COME not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by.