Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary EstimatesMacmillan, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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... pure , so tender , so redolent of what is beautiful in nature , in man , in woman - all this won over the entire public that cares for poetry , and truly deserved to win it . Even now full justice has hardly been done to Tennyson's ...
... pure , so tender , so redolent of what is beautiful in nature , in man , in woman - all this won over the entire public that cares for poetry , and truly deserved to win it . Even now full justice has hardly been done to Tennyson's ...
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... pure fancy , too much sentiment , too much of the drawing - room and the lecture - hall - in a word , it is nearer to a modern romance than to an antique epic . It is poetry , exquisite poetry , but no more an epic than Shelley's Revolt ...
... pure fancy , too much sentiment , too much of the drawing - room and the lecture - hall - in a word , it is nearer to a modern romance than to an antique epic . It is poetry , exquisite poetry , but no more an epic than Shelley's Revolt ...
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... whole poem were cast in a purely ideal world , we could accept it as pure fantasy . But it is not quite an ideal world . Therein lies the difficulty . The scene , though not of course historic , has certain historic sug- 18 TENNYSON.
... whole poem were cast in a purely ideal world , we could accept it as pure fantasy . But it is not quite an ideal world . Therein lies the difficulty . The scene , though not of course historic , has certain historic sug- 18 TENNYSON.
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... pure poetry , if we could forget the incon- gruity of making belted knights with fairy mothers talking modern morality - noble and musical as the morality is — and if we could forget the fierce clang of battle , and all the rude and ...
... pure poetry , if we could forget the incon- gruity of making belted knights with fairy mothers talking modern morality - noble and musical as the morality is — and if we could forget the fierce clang of battle , and all the rude and ...
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... kinghood and a world of pure fancy , wonder , and weird myth , undisturbed by any incongruous tale of Arthur's blind- ness and Guinevere's falseness . One used to hear it . said at Oxford in the fifties , that if the 22 TENNYSON.
... kinghood and a world of pure fancy , wonder , and weird myth , undisturbed by any incongruous tale of Arthur's blind- ness and Guinevere's falseness . One used to hear it . said at Oxford in the fifties , that if the 22 TENNYSON.
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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.
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.