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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... Faithful Son of God himself ! Such is the burst of glory that man has beheld , and less than its luster and loveliness he dare not now on his soul's peril require . Let us begin our ascent once more with Sarah ( 10 MODERN POET PROPHETS .
... Faithful Son of God himself ! Such is the burst of glory that man has beheld , and less than its luster and loveliness he dare not now on his soul's peril require . Let us begin our ascent once more with Sarah ( 10 MODERN POET PROPHETS .
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... soul of man ! Get Helena , for the Greeks knew beauty , and in Helena they found a form fit to embody their ideal . But to see Helena is not merely to enjoy unmoved , altruistically . No sooner has one seen than a mad passion to possess ...
... soul of man ! Get Helena , for the Greeks knew beauty , and in Helena they found a form fit to embody their ideal . But to see Helena is not merely to enjoy unmoved , altruistically . No sooner has one seen than a mad passion to possess ...
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... soul From form be nothing " ? - ( Pippa Passes . ) The greatest opportunity to - day for the idealizing faculty is ... soul . Oblivion of self ( which resembles content ) , in sympathetic consciousness of others and their joys , is the ...
... soul From form be nothing " ? - ( Pippa Passes . ) The greatest opportunity to - day for the idealizing faculty is ... soul . Oblivion of self ( which resembles content ) , in sympathetic consciousness of others and their joys , is the ...
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... soul in the world beyond has felt with him and prayed for him , the whole host of the blessed meet him with a fervent welcome . " Then once more is it that we encounter Gretchen , but now as the purified soul that caused his welcome ...
... soul in the world beyond has felt with him and prayed for him , the whole host of the blessed meet him with a fervent welcome . " Then once more is it that we encounter Gretchen , but now as the purified soul that caused his welcome ...
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... soul's own equal love , and fall thus into her sin . Ah ! Gretchen has her lesson . The lily is the flower of purity , not merely for its almost unbearably radiant whiteness , for its penetrating perfume that floats upon the air and ...
... soul's own equal love , and fall thus into her sin . Ah ! Gretchen has her lesson . The lily is the flower of purity , not merely for its almost unbearably radiant whiteness , for its penetrating perfume that floats upon the air and ...
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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...