The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volumen4Macmillan, 1903 |
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... , not indeed by the world's deliberate and conscious choice , but by something far deeper , -by the instinct of self - preservation in humanity . II MILTON 1 The THE most eloquent voice of our 41 I THE STUDY OF POETRY.
... , not indeed by the world's deliberate and conscious choice , but by something far deeper , -by the instinct of self - preservation in humanity . II MILTON 1 The THE most eloquent voice of our 41 I THE STUDY OF POETRY.
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... instinct for character , for virtue , passing into the man's life , passing into his work . Signs of virtue , in the true and large sense of the word , the instinct for virtue passing into the life of Keats and strengthening it , I find ...
... instinct for character , for virtue , passing into the man's life , passing into his work . Signs of virtue , in the true and large sense of the word , the instinct for virtue passing into the life of Keats and strengthening it , I find ...
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... instincts and affections coming out in childhood , testifying of a divine home recently left , and fading away as our life proceeds , this idea , of ... instinct is mighty in childhood , and tends to die away IIO ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
... instincts and affections coming out in childhood , testifying of a divine home recently left , and fading away as our life proceeds , this idea , of ... instinct is mighty in childhood , and tends to die away IIO ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
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... instincts of early childhood , the base of the alleged systematic philosophy of Words- worth , what Thucydides says of the early achieve- ments of the Greek race : ' It is impossible to speak with certainty of what is so remote ; but ...
... instincts of early childhood , the base of the alleged systematic philosophy of Words- worth , what Thucydides says of the early achieve- ments of the Greek race : ' It is impossible to speak with certainty of what is so remote ; but ...
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... instinct of a poet Mr. Swinburne has seized upon it and named it for us . The power of Byron's personality lies in the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and out- weighs all his defects : the excellence ...
... instinct of a poet Mr. Swinburne has seized upon it and named it for us . The power of Byron's personality lies in the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and out- weighs all his defects : the excellence ...
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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.