Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary EstimatesMacmillan, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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... Century ; that on Lamb and Keats in the Contemporary Review ; those on Gibbon in the Forum of New York . The author has to express to the Editors and Proprietors of these Reviews his grateful thanks for the courtesy which enables him to ...
... Century ; that on Lamb and Keats in the Contemporary Review ; those on Gibbon in the Forum of New York . The author has to express to the Editors and Proprietors of these Reviews his grateful thanks for the courtesy which enables him to ...
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... century that has passed since Tennyson became Poet Laureate , his authority over poetic form has been paramount , as his superiority to all poets of the time is above question or doubt . His flower , to adopt his words of proud humility ...
... century that has passed since Tennyson became Poet Laureate , his authority over poetic form has been paramount , as his superiority to all poets of the time is above question or doubt . His flower , to adopt his words of proud humility ...
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... century , to discuss the poems of Tennyson with the cool freedom that will certainly be applied to them in the next and succeeding centuries . He has never been judged as we judge Byron , Shelley , Keats , or Wordsworth . Since he won ...
... century , to discuss the poems of Tennyson with the cool freedom that will certainly be applied to them in the next and succeeding centuries . He has never been judged as we judge Byron , Shelley , Keats , or Wordsworth . Since he won ...
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... typical metre for this meditative and elegiac lyric . Even if it had been occasionally used before in the seventeenth century , Tennyson gave it the development and perfection it has for us . TENNYSON 5 'IN MEMORIAM,'
... typical metre for this meditative and elegiac lyric . Even if it had been occasionally used before in the seventeenth century , Tennyson gave it the development and perfection it has for us . TENNYSON 5 'IN MEMORIAM,'
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... century , ten thousand pulpits have been echoing the same cry , as have hundreds of beautiful essays full of pious hopes , and vague moan- ings about something ' behind the veil . ' Popes , Caliphs , martyrs , mystics , Bunyan ...
... century , ten thousand pulpits have been echoing the same cry , as have hundreds of beautiful essays full of pious hopes , and vague moan- ings about something ' behind the veil . ' Popes , Caliphs , martyrs , mystics , Bunyan ...
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Alfred Tennyson alliteration Anne Boleyn Arnold Autobiography beautiful Byron Carlyle century Charles Lamb charm colour Comte critic delight doubt Edward Gibbon eloquent epic essays exquisite fancy feel Freeman Froude genius Gibbon gift grace historian human ideas Idylls imagination individual inspired John Morley John Ruskin judgment Keats Lamb language learning letters lines literary literature living Lord Sheffield Lycidas lyric Macaulay Madame de Sévigné master Matthew Arnold mediæval melody Memoir Memoriam Mill Mill's Milton modern moral nature never noble original painter passage passion perfect perhaps philosophy phrase piece poems poet poetic poetry political rare reader religion romance S. R. Gardiner sense sentence Shelley social society soul spirit style subtle Symonds taste Tennyson things thought tion to-day true truth Unto this Last verse Voltaire volumes whilst whole women words Wordsworth write wrote
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Página 162 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Página 106 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 8 - O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth...
Página 99 - I may, however, anticipate future conclusions, so far as to state that in a community regulated only by laws of demand and supply, but protected from open violence, the persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the...
Página 305 - This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger, even without express inculcation, from the influences of advancing civilization.
Página 242 - Christ's natural Flesh and Blood. For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and, therefore, may not be adored ; (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians ;) and the natural Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here ; it being against the truth of Christ's natural Body to be at one time in more places than one.
Página 8 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 39 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 116 - ... Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 'Mid struggling sufferers, hurt to death, she lay ! Shuddering, they drew her garments off — and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorn'd outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within.
Página 34 - Last night, when some one spoke his name, From my swift blood that went and came A thousand little shafts of flame Were shiver'd in my narrow frame. O Love, O fire ! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.