Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and InterpretativeR. Clarke Company, 1897 - 343 páginas Reprint of the 1897 ed. published by R. Clarke Co., Cincinnati. |
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... present volume does not complete my design , I shall be at all events com- forted by the thought that I shall have more time and space to treat of these and others more nearly as they deserve in some future volume . The first essay in ...
... present volume does not complete my design , I shall be at all events com- forted by the thought that I shall have more time and space to treat of these and others more nearly as they deserve in some future volume . The first essay in ...
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... present writer most noteworthy is not that he was diseased in body , unfortunate in more respects than one , given no scope for his marvelous powers ; but that while By Evolutional Philosophy is understood throughout this paper all ...
... present writer most noteworthy is not that he was diseased in body , unfortunate in more respects than one , given no scope for his marvelous powers ; but that while By Evolutional Philosophy is understood throughout this paper all ...
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... present pain and disappointment , he was able to accept entire the practical pessimism of his phi- losophy ; that his ingenuous simplicity and directness , his artistic desire for the beautiful , tended to make him think nobly of man's ...
... present pain and disappointment , he was able to accept entire the practical pessimism of his phi- losophy ; that his ingenuous simplicity and directness , his artistic desire for the beautiful , tended to make him think nobly of man's ...
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... present Age Which seems for knowledge to outtop And civil manners all times hitherto- What feeling then , unhappy mortal race What thought of thee at last my heart assails ? I know not if contempt or pity ' t is prevails ! As from a ...
... present Age Which seems for knowledge to outtop And civil manners all times hitherto- What feeling then , unhappy mortal race What thought of thee at last my heart assails ? I know not if contempt or pity ' t is prevails ! As from a ...
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... present paper are made from the well known edition of Senancour's " Obermann , " with a preface by George Sand , published by Charpentier , Paris . ment exist , to be sure . Some people prefer OBERMANN AND MATTHEW ARNOLD . 61 "OBERMANN ...
... present paper are made from the well known edition of Senancour's " Obermann , " with a preface by George Sand , published by Charpentier , Paris . ment exist , to be sure . Some people prefer OBERMANN AND MATTHEW ARNOLD . 61 "OBERMANN ...
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Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and Interpretative William Norman Guthrie Vista de fragmentos - 1973 |
Términos y frases comunes
Arnold artist beauty become believe body consciousness course death Demogorgon desire divine doctrine doubt drama dream dualism earth Elias Hicks Empedocles essay eternal evil Evolutional Philosophy eyes fact faith fancy Faust feel forever give glory Goethe happy heart heaven holy hope human idea ideal illusion imagination immortality Jupiter leave Leaves of Grass less living man's mankind matter Matthew Arnold means ment mind monism moral nature never Obermann Ode to Duty ourselves pain passion perfect philosophic pleasure poem poet poetry possible present Prometheus Unbound reader realism religion sake Senancour sense Shelley Shelley's song Sophocles soul soul's speak spirit suffering sure sweet Swinburne sympathy thee theology theory theosophies things thou thought tion true truth two-spirit uncon universe utter virtue Walt Walt Whitman Whitman whole words worship Zeus
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Página 146 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
Página 129 - 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.
Página 295 - What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...
Página 254 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Página 122 - O love, my love! if I no more should see Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee, Nor image of thine eyes in any spring, — How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope, The wind of Death's imperishable wing?
Página 31 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Página 151 - The highest moral purpose aimed at in the highest species of the drama, is the teaching the human heart, through its sympathies and antipathies, the knowledge of itself; in proportion to the possession of which knowledge, every human being is wise, just, sincere, tolerant and kind.
Página 128 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 241 - We consider bibles and religions divine — I do not say they are not divine, I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still, It is not they who give the life...
Página 329 - Eternal dooms for His immortal sons. From ho"pe and firmer faith to perfect love Attracted and absorbed : and centered there God only to behold, and know, and feel Till by exclusive consciousness of God All self-annihilated it shall make God its Identity...