The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 páginas |
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... highest order , a proposition which everyone would have accepted without argument , if he had not thought fit to force an open door by laying siege to it with a whole park of artillery . Nothing would satisfy him but to take the posi ...
... highest order , a proposition which everyone would have accepted without argument , if he had not thought fit to force an open door by laying siege to it with a whole park of artillery . Nothing would satisfy him but to take the posi ...
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... highest degree , there , even though they should be unaccompanied and unsupported by any other great quality whatever - even though the ethical or critical quality should be conspicuous by its absence there , and only there , is the ...
... highest degree , there , even though they should be unaccompanied and unsupported by any other great quality whatever - even though the ethical or critical quality should be conspicuous by its absence there , and only there , is the ...
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... with deference , but with confidence , that the ethical standard of judg- ment which Mr. Arnold proposes as the test of the highest poetry is narrow and arbi- L 6 trary ; that in criticising any poet , ESSAY I 13 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... with deference , but with confidence , that the ethical standard of judg- ment which Mr. Arnold proposes as the test of the highest poetry is narrow and arbi- L 6 trary ; that in criticising any poet , ESSAY I 13 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... highest poetry , ' says he , ' is that it eludes all tests . Poetry in which there is no element at once perceptible and indefinable by any reader or hearer of any poetic instinct may have every other good quality ; it may be as nobly ...
... highest poetry , ' says he , ' is that it eludes all tests . Poetry in which there is no element at once perceptible and indefinable by any reader or hearer of any poetic instinct may have every other good quality ; it may be as nobly ...
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... highest poetry , he will have to explain away the greater part of Homer , and Virgil , and Shake- speare , and Milton ; the fact being that the greatness of these poets consists in the manly strength , the distinctness , and the ...
... highest poetry , he will have to explain away the greater part of Homer , and Virgil , and Shake- speare , and Milton ; the fact being that the greatness of these poets consists in the manly strength , the distinctness , and the ...
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Página 149 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 161 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Página 182 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 133 - My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Página 86 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 51 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Página 79 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Página 98 - Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow...
Página 168 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Página 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.