Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern LifeIsbister, 1894 - 490 pages |
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... natural thought and natural feeling . Vital sincerity or living correspondence between idea and form , that absolute ... nature in which Browning had his pleasure . It was easy , then , it may be said , for him to be clear . But I think ...
... natural thought and natural feeling . Vital sincerity or living correspondence between idea and form , that absolute ... nature in which Browning had his pleasure . It was easy , then , it may be said , for him to be clear . But I think ...
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... Nature . It is plain that he might have entered into infinite and involuted description ; that he could , if he pleased , have expressed the stranger and remoter aspects of Nature , for he had an eye to see every- thing from small to ...
... Nature . It is plain that he might have entered into infinite and involuted description ; that he could , if he pleased , have expressed the stranger and remoter aspects of Nature , for he had an eye to see every- thing from small to ...
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... nature is hewn out of the living rock , enters as stateliness into all their verse , gives it a moral virtue , a ... natural gift of shaping it into fuller ease , power , and permanence . As to beauty itself , men talk of natural beauty ...
... nature is hewn out of the living rock , enters as stateliness into all their verse , gives it a moral virtue , a ... natural gift of shaping it into fuller ease , power , and permanence . As to beauty itself , men talk of natural beauty ...
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... Nature and of God in their relation to ineffable beauty , and that the getting of this pervading essence out of all ... natural gift of creating , and on his care- ful training of it , I need not dwell , nor yet on his practice and love ...
... Nature and of God in their relation to ineffable beauty , and that the getting of this pervading essence out of all ... natural gift of creating , and on his care- ful training of it , I need not dwell , nor yet on his practice and love ...
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... Nature there is continuity of development , and the germs of the subjects which the new poetry of any generation develops into full - foliaged trees are to be found in the poetry which preceded that new poetry . The poetry of Nature ...
... Nature there is continuity of development , and the germs of the subjects which the new poetry of any generation develops into full - foliaged trees are to be found in the poetry which preceded that new poetry . The poetry of Nature ...
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Page 373 - The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 101 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Page 206 - HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So HE bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 120 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 83 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand; Left on the shore; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 371 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 439 - The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in this was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, Ionian music measuring out The steps of Time - the shocks of Chance The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro
Page 242 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee: Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls...
Page 296 - In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 101 - COME not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by.