The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volumen4Macmillan, 1903 |
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... , as uttering the thought which should , in my opinion , go with us and govern us in all 1 Published in 1880 as the General Introduction to The English Poets , edited by T. H. Ward . VOL . IV I B our study of poetry . In the present work ...
... , as uttering the thought which should , in my opinion , go with us and govern us in all 1 Published in 1880 as the General Introduction to The English Poets , edited by T. H. Ward . VOL . IV I B our study of poetry . In the present work ...
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Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell. our study of poetry . In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world - river of poetry that we are invited to follow . We are here invited to trace the ...
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell. our study of poetry . In the present work it is the course of one great contributory stream to the world - river of poetry that we are invited to follow . We are here invited to trace the ...
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... present . And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure in us the consciousness of what our benefit should be , and to distract us from the pursuit of it . We should ...
... present . And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure in us the consciousness of what our benefit should be , and to distract us from the pursuit of it . We should ...
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... present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read . But this real estimate , the only true one , is liable to be superseded , if we are not watchful , by two other kinds of estimate , the historic estimate and the ...
... present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read . But this real estimate , the only true one , is liable to be superseded , if we are not watchful , by two other kinds of estimate , the historic estimate and the ...
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... present . And naturally the poets to be exhibited in it will be assigned to those persons for exhibition who are known to prize them highly , rather than to those who have no special inclination towards them . Moreover the very ...
... present . And naturally the poets to be exhibited in it will be assigned to those persons for exhibition who are known to prize them highly , rather than to those who have no special inclination towards them . Moreover the very ...
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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.