Joyous GardG.P. Putnam's sons, 1913 - 267 páginas |
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... speak our inner thoughts is what more than anything else keeps us apart from each other . In this book I have said , or tried to say , just what I thought and as I thought it ; and as it is a book which recommends a studied quietness ...
... speak our inner thoughts is what more than anything else keeps us apart from each other . In this book I have said , or tried to say , just what I thought and as I thought it ; and as it is a book which recommends a studied quietness ...
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... speak sympathetically on the subject . I worked very hard indeed at poetry for seven or eight years , wrote little else , and the published volumes form only a small part of my output , which exists in many manuscript volumes . I ...
... speak sympathetically on the subject . I worked very hard indeed at poetry for seven or eight years , wrote little else , and the published volumes form only a small part of my output , which exists in many manuscript volumes . I ...
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... speak , by deputy , but all the same learned directly , if unconsciously , the beauty of virtue . When we come to our own Elizabethans , there is no evidence that in their plays and poetry they thought about morals at all . No one has ...
... speak , by deputy , but all the same learned directly , if unconsciously , the beauty of virtue . When we come to our own Elizabethans , there is no evidence that in their plays and poetry they thought about morals at all . No one has ...
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... speaking of those who write basely and crudely , to please a popular taste . They have their reward ; and after all they are little more than mountebanks , the end of whose show is to gather up pence in the ring . But the poet in verse ...
... speaking of those who write basely and crudely , to please a popular taste . They have their reward ; and after all they are little more than mountebanks , the end of whose show is to gather up pence in the ring . But the poet in verse ...
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... speak freely of these things , to be impor- tunate , to ask for help ; it seems to us at once impertinent and undignified ; but it is this sort of dreary consideration , which is nothing but distorted vanity , and this still drearier ...
... speak freely of these things , to be impor- tunate , to ask for help ; it seems to us at once impertinent and undignified ; but it is this sort of dreary consideration , which is nothing but distorted vanity , and this still drearier ...
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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.