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... criticism can establish in literature by no means syn- chronise with the time covered by the reigns of those sovereigns . Nevertheless , it requires but little reflection to show that ex- pressions of this kind , though never exact ...
... criticism can establish in literature by no means syn- chronise with the time covered by the reigns of those sovereigns . Nevertheless , it requires but little reflection to show that ex- pressions of this kind , though never exact ...
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... Criticism has rightly concluded that the discovery of America was an event which had much to do with the production of Shakespeare's plays , remote as it seems from them . So it is with the railways and the ex- panding commerce of ...
... Criticism has rightly concluded that the discovery of America was an event which had much to do with the production of Shakespeare's plays , remote as it seems from them . So it is with the railways and the ex- panding commerce of ...
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... not to be disputed ; or it tries to turn criticism by a new appeal to reason , as did Jowett , and after him T. H. Green and the present Master of Balliol . Ignorance of German , as 8 [ CH . I. the greater vICTORIAN POETS .
... not to be disputed ; or it tries to turn criticism by a new appeal to reason , as did Jowett , and after him T. H. Green and the present Master of Balliol . Ignorance of German , as 8 [ CH . I. the greater vICTORIAN POETS .
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... criticism here adopted is practically the same as that which Matthew Arnold laid down , and which can be quite easily dissociated from his questionable definition of poetry . Though poets do not , properly speaking , criticise life ...
... criticism here adopted is practically the same as that which Matthew Arnold laid down , and which can be quite easily dissociated from his questionable definition of poetry . Though poets do not , properly speaking , criticise life ...
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... habitual feeling of this race with its unique gift of criticism . And if there is some suggestion of the youth of the world in the simple trust · with which those appeals to poetic authority are made , CH . 1. ] 13 INTRODUCTION .
... habitual feeling of this race with its unique gift of criticism . And if there is some suggestion of the youth of the world in the simple trust · with which those appeals to poetic authority are made , CH . 1. ] 13 INTRODUCTION .
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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!