Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary EstimatesMacmillan, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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... VI . JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS , 135 CRITICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS , . 139 ITALIAN LITERATURE AND ART , 146 POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS , 151 PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS SPECULATIONS , 154 CHAP . VII . ON ENGLISH PROSE , PAGE 159 vii.
... VI . JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS , 135 CRITICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS , . 139 ITALIAN LITERATURE AND ART , 146 POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS , 151 PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS SPECULATIONS , 154 CHAP . VII . ON ENGLISH PROSE , PAGE 159 vii.
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... Essays , in Dr. Mar- tineau's philosophy , and we may now add , in Arthur Balfour's Philosophic Doubts and Foundations of Belief . ( Heaven save the mark ! ) - ' Our little systems have their day . ' ' We have but faith : we cannot know ...
... Essays , in Dr. Mar- tineau's philosophy , and we may now add , in Arthur Balfour's Philosophic Doubts and Foundations of Belief . ( Heaven save the mark ! ) - ' Our little systems have their day . ' ' We have but faith : we cannot know ...
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... essays by able men who , feeling the force of many unsolved problems of metaphysics and of science , still would find æsthetic , moral , and psychological grounds for ' faintly trusting the larger hope . ' Nor can it be denied that ...
... essays by able men who , feeling the force of many unsolved problems of metaphysics and of science , still would find æsthetic , moral , and psychological grounds for ' faintly trusting the larger hope . ' Nor can it be denied that ...
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... essays , and novels which con- fute modern philosophy and science . Pamphleteering , even in defence of the Christian verities - much less in advocacy of the ' hidden hope ' or ' honest doubt'— is seldom poetry , and the manifest ...
... essays , and novels which con- fute modern philosophy and science . Pamphleteering , even in defence of the Christian verities - much less in advocacy of the ' hidden hope ' or ' honest doubt'— is seldom poetry , and the manifest ...
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... essay , is wholly needless . A far more difficult task is to class these fascinat- ing poems . To what order of poetry do they belong ; do they fulfil all their aim ; are they an unqualified success ? Clearly the Idylls do not form a ...
... essay , is wholly needless . A far more difficult task is to class these fascinat- ing poems . To what order of poetry do they belong ; do they fulfil all their aim ; are they an unqualified success ? Clearly the Idylls do not form a ...
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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.
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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.