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... grouped in a volume , I prefer to present them without com- ment to the impartial consideration of the reader , only adding a few words on a point on which my intention seems to have been very generally misunderstood .
... grouped in a volume , I prefer to present them without com- ment to the impartial consideration of the reader , only adding a few words on a point on which my intention seems to have been very generally misunderstood .
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... the impartial reader may detect a bias in my judgments of which I am myself unconscious . If , however , he be inclined to complain that the tribute paid in these essays to the great romantic poets of the present xii PREFACE.
... the impartial reader may detect a bias in my judgments of which I am myself unconscious . If , however , he be inclined to complain that the tribute paid in these essays to the great romantic poets of the present xii PREFACE.
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... reader while considering the astounding invectives with which Mr. Swinburne has lately been endeavour- ing to befoul Byron's memory . ' Doest thou well to be angry , ' he may have been inclined to ask , because Mr. Arnold has preferred ...
... reader while considering the astounding invectives with which Mr. Swinburne has lately been endeavour- ing to befoul Byron's memory . ' Doest thou well to be angry , ' he may have been inclined to ask , because Mr. Arnold has preferred ...
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... reader , and the combatants triumphed with or succumbed to unimpeachable syllogisms . Not so our contemporaries . When Mr. Arnold has assured us that poetry in the future will fill the place of religion we are very ready to concede that ...
... reader , and the combatants triumphed with or succumbed to unimpeachable syllogisms . Not so our contemporaries . When Mr. Arnold has assured us that poetry in the future will fill the place of religion we are very ready to concede that ...
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... . ' 6 Surely when a critic of great eminence thinks it necessary to give such advice to a pre- sumably large number of readers the art of poetry must have fallen upon evil days . For if there ESSAY I 11 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... . ' 6 Surely when a critic of great eminence thinks it necessary to give such advice to a pre- sumably large number of readers the art of poetry must have fallen upon evil days . For if there ESSAY I 11 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Page 149 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 161 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 182 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 133 - My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Page 86 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Page 51 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Page 79 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 98 - Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow...
Page 168 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Page 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.