Studies in IdealismJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1923 - 278 páginas |
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Página xiii
... fancy , but represents the conclusions of inspired reason , and that a failure to distinguish the ideal of the sensualist , under whatever disguises , from that of the seer and the saint and the poet in their sublimest expression ...
... fancy , but represents the conclusions of inspired reason , and that a failure to distinguish the ideal of the sensualist , under whatever disguises , from that of the seer and the saint and the poet in their sublimest expression ...
Página xv
... fancy and lies of plausible instinct ; to relate once more man's desire for perfection , where it has degenerated into a desire for self - gratification , with actuality ; to reconcile in- tellectual and natural values . Victorian ...
... fancy and lies of plausible instinct ; to relate once more man's desire for perfection , where it has degenerated into a desire for self - gratification , with actuality ; to reconcile in- tellectual and natural values . Victorian ...
Página xx
... fancy . Yet in the passive periods which must intervene between those of creative effort , a poet may well examine his intuitions and criticise his vision of life in sober prose . It is because the criticism of poets has been based on ...
... fancy . Yet in the passive periods which must intervene between those of creative effort , a poet may well examine his intuitions and criticise his vision of life in sober prose . It is because the criticism of poets has been based on ...
Página xxi
... fancy or affectation to imaginative power , is as bound to use some of the broad definitions of philosophy as he is to consult the data of modern psychology . Certainly , except for those happy few whose intrinsic taste can be relied ...
... fancy or affectation to imaginative power , is as bound to use some of the broad definitions of philosophy as he is to consult the data of modern psychology . Certainly , except for those happy few whose intrinsic taste can be relied ...
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... fancy to record life in its brutal actuality . For fear of false sentiment there was a revulsion even to physical ugliness . The century which began with a hasty idealism ends with a grovelling realism or a decorated dandyism . But this ...
... fancy to record life in its brutal actuality . For fear of false sentiment there was a revulsion even to physical ugliness . The century which began with a hasty idealism ends with a grovelling realism or a decorated dandyism . But this ...
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absolute accepted admit Æschylus æsthetic animal artist Augustan Augustan poetry beauty Blake brutal casuistry century conception consciousness creative creed critical cultivated D. H. LAWRENCE desire discord distinct divine dogma dualism earth ecstasy egotism elements Elizabethan embodied emotion energy English poetry escape eternal exaggerated existence experience expression fact faculties faith false fancy feeling forces genius Goethe harmony heaven human hypochondria idea ideal idealist imagination impressionism impulse indulgence inevitable infinite inspired instinct intellectual intelligence intuition less liberty licence live logic man's material matter mediæval mind modern moral mystical nature nature's never Nietzsche pagan passion perfect philosophy physical poem poet poet's poetry primitive principle Protestantism pure Puritanism rational realise reality reason Romantic Romanticism sensation sense sensibility sentiment soul spirit sublime surrender sympathy things thought tion transcend Troilus and Criseyde true truth universal values Victorian Victorian Age Victorian literature virtue vision vital Wordsworth
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Página 88 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 149 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Página 216 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 104 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Página 208 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul and form All melted into him : they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Página 105 - Peace My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a winged sentry All skilful in the wars; There, above noise and danger, Sweet peace sits crowned with smiles, And one born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.
Página 131 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Página 108 - I GOT me flowers to straw Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the east, Though he give light, and th' east perfume; If they should offer to contest With Thy arising, they presume.
Página 150 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair; I hear her in the tunefu...
Página 154 - To Mercy Pity Peace and Love, All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love, Is God our father dear: And Mercy Pity Peace and Love. Is Man his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.