The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volumen4Macmillan, 1903 |
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... gives us a human personage no longer , but a God seated immovable amidst His perfect work , like Jupiter on Olympus ; and hardly will it be possible for the young student , to whom such work is exhibited at such a distance from him , to ...
... gives us a human personage no longer , but a God seated immovable amidst His perfect work , like Jupiter on Olympus ; and hardly will it be possible for the young student , to whom such work is exhibited at such a distance from him , to ...
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... gives to the Chanson de Roland . If our words are to have any meaning , if our judgments are to have any solidity , we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior . Indeed there can be no more useful ...
... gives to the Chanson de Roland . If our words are to have any meaning , if our judgments are to have any solidity , we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior . Indeed there can be no more useful ...
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... give themselves great labour to draw out what in the abstract constitutes the characters of a high quality of poetry . It is much better simply to have recourse to concrete examples ; - to take specimens of poetry of the high , the very ...
... give themselves great labour to draw out what in the abstract constitutes the characters of a high quality of poetry . It is much better simply to have recourse to concrete examples ; - to take specimens of poetry of the high , the very ...
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... gives to our spirits what they can rest upon ; and with the increasing demands of our modern ages upon poetry , this virtue of giving us what we can rest upon will be more and more highly esteemed . A voice from the slums of Paris ...
... gives to our spirits what they can rest upon ; and with the increasing demands of our modern ages upon poetry , this virtue of giving us what we can rest upon will be more and more highly esteemed . A voice from the slums of Paris ...
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... give way , the real estimate ? Wordsworth and Coleridge , as is well known , denied it ; but the authority of Wordsworth and Coleridge does not weigh much with the young generation , and there are many signs to show that the eighteenth ...
... give way , the real estimate ? Wordsworth and Coleridge , as is well known , denied it ; but the authority of Wordsworth and Coleridge does not weigh much with the young generation , and there are many signs to show that the eighteenth ...
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Página 36 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 50 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 148 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Página 142 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Página 38 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 16 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 40 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne ! We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot, Sin auld lang syne. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, Frae mornin' sun till dine : But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. And here's a hand, my trusty frien', And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne ! And surely ye'll be your pint-stoup, And surely I'll be mine ; And we'll tak a cup o...
Página 29 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 354 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Página 186 - But let no one suppose that a want of humour and a self-delusion such as Shelley's have no effect upon a man's poetry. The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley's poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.