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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... sure that the purport of the inscrip- tion as a whole is too clear for any reasonable doubt or misconstruction . We begin with the lowest round of this strange Jacob's ladder , in which the rounds are the very angels themselves ...
... sure that the purport of the inscrip- tion as a whole is too clear for any reasonable doubt or misconstruction . We begin with the lowest round of this strange Jacob's ladder , in which the rounds are the very angels themselves ...
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... sure , but are called to that salvation in the everlasting purpose of the Holy One . Again we have reached the crown , -the greater Sarah . And who is she ? White bride of God , sweet Mary maid , At Gabriel's greeting sore afraid Did ...
... sure , but are called to that salvation in the everlasting purpose of the Holy One . Again we have reached the crown , -the greater Sarah . And who is she ? White bride of God , sweet Mary maid , At Gabriel's greeting sore afraid Did ...
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... sure it is welcome , so unaware of rival charms ! But here we have what is still lovelier . Instinctive self - assertion replaced by modest faith that God will speak for her . Is she not in Paradise , the bitter fruit untasted ? Does ...
... sure it is welcome , so unaware of rival charms ! But here we have what is still lovelier . Instinctive self - assertion replaced by modest faith that God will speak for her . Is she not in Paradise , the bitter fruit untasted ? Does ...
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... sure they " will find " him " there " ( p . 231 ) . That she is dying - dead - he at first can not , will not believe . It is a mystery that such should agonize , and leave the earth so beyond all reckoning poor , to enrich a heaven ...
... sure they " will find " him " there " ( p . 231 ) . That she is dying - dead - he at first can not , will not believe . It is a mystery that such should agonize , and leave the earth so beyond all reckoning poor , to enrich a heaven ...
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... sure . " - ( Rg . & Bk . vii . , p . 218. ) But there is an advance made in this woman . Not merely because in heaven we shall- " Be as the angels rather , who , apart , Know themselves into One , are found at length Married , " - ( Id ...
... sure . " - ( Rg . & Bk . vii . , p . 218. ) But there is an advance made in this woman . Not merely because in heaven we shall- " Be as the angels rather , who , apart , Know themselves into One , are found at length Married , " - ( Id ...
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Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and Interpretative William Norman Guthrie Vista de fragmentos - 1973 |
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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...