Joyous GardG.P. Putnam's sons, 1913 - 267 páginas |
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... it is not only right , it is natural and wise , that we should have a stronghold in our minds , where we should frequent cour- teous and gentle and knightly company-- The Knightly Spirit 5 the company of all who have 4 Prelude.
... it is not only right , it is natural and wise , that we should have a stronghold in our minds , where we should frequent cour- teous and gentle and knightly company-- The Knightly Spirit 5 the company of all who have 4 Prelude.
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... mind like a seed , and quicken to life while one sleeps , breaking unexpect- edly into bloom , I will here say what comes into my mind to say , and point out the towers that I think I discern rising above the tangled forest , and ...
... mind like a seed , and quicken to life while one sleeps , breaking unexpect- edly into bloom , I will here say what comes into my mind to say , and point out the towers that I think I discern rising above the tangled forest , and ...
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... mind and soul ; we do not seem to invent them , though we cannot trace them ; and even if we find them in books that we read or words that we hear , they do not seem wholly new to us ; we recognise them as things that we have dimly felt ...
... mind and soul ; we do not seem to invent them , though we cannot trace them ; and even if we find them in books that we read or words that we hear , they do not seem wholly new to us ; we recognise them as things that we have dimly felt ...
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... mind . " In these fine sentences it will be seen that Mr. Mackail makes a very high and majestic claim indeed for poetry : no less than the claim of art , chivalry , patriotism , love , and religion all rolled into one ! If that claim ...
... mind . " In these fine sentences it will be seen that Mr. Mackail makes a very high and majestic claim indeed for poetry : no less than the claim of art , chivalry , patriotism , love , and religion all rolled into one ! If that claim ...
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... mind as beautiful , and arouse in it that strange and wistful longing which beautiful things arouse . It is hard to define that longing , but it is essentially a desire , a claim to draw near to something desirable , to possess it , to ...
... mind as beautiful , and arouse in it that strange and wistful longing which beautiful things arouse . It is hard to define that longing , but it is essentially a desire , a claim to draw near to something desirable , to possess it , to ...
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Página 36 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Página 46 - ... amid fair sights and sounds; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will meet the sense like a breeze, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason.
Página 31 - I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds. No sooner am I alone than shapes of epic greatness are stationed around me, and serve my Spirit the office which is equivalent to a King's body guard — then 'Tragedy with scepter'd pall, comes sweeping by'.
Página 87 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Página 32 - The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the...
Página 2 - Wherefore? said Sir Bors. Truly, said the bishop, here was Sir Launcelot with me, with more angels than ever I saw men upon one day; and I saw the angels heave Sir Launcelot unto heaven, and the gates of heaven opened against him.
Página 182 - ... deep moments, good to live by, strengthgiving—I find it preposterous, I say, to suppose that the goodness of that feeling for living purposes should be held to carry no objective significance, and especially preposterous if it combines harmoniously with an otherwise grounded philosophy of objective truth.
Página 31 - ... was unappreciated and underestimated. His commonplaceness, when it appears, is not a defect of quality, but an eager human interest in the personalities among whom his lot was cast. But every now and then there swells up a poignant sense of passion and beauty, a sacred, haunting, devouring fire of inspiration, which leaps high and clear upon the homely altar.
Página 31 - This morning Poetry has conquered. I have relapsed into those abstractions which are my only life. I feel escaped from a new, strange and threatening sorrow, and I am thankful for it. There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of Immortality.