Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern LifeIsbister, 1894 - 490 pages |
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... passions of mankind , such as Shakespeare in his Tragic worked upon , nor the subtle and distant analogies and phases of human nature in which Browning had his pleasure . It was easy , then , it may be said , for him to be clear . But I ...
... passions of mankind , such as Shakespeare in his Tragic worked upon , nor the subtle and distant analogies and phases of human nature in which Browning had his pleasure . It was easy , then , it may be said , for him to be clear . But I ...
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... passion it makes glow is one which devours all other passions . The desire to reveal beauty , to make it clear , so far as he has seen it , is a desire which makes all merely personal desires common and unclean . Whatever vulgar folk ...
... passion it makes glow is one which devours all other passions . The desire to reveal beauty , to make it clear , so far as he has seen it , is a desire which makes all merely personal desires common and unclean . Whatever vulgar folk ...
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... passion of unending effort for it , and the conviction of an eternity of life in which to pursue after it . This eternal con- tinuance in us of the conscious life of love ; in other words , of incessant action towards greater nearness ...
... passion of unending effort for it , and the conviction of an eternity of life in which to pursue after it . This eternal con- tinuance in us of the conscious life of love ; in other words , of incessant action towards greater nearness ...
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... passion ; and lessens the use of his poetry to the cause of freedom . If the poet take the unpoetic side of any question , he gives no help to mankind , so far as the question concerns mankind . The same things said in prose are very ...
... passion ; and lessens the use of his poetry to the cause of freedom . If the poet take the unpoetic side of any question , he gives no help to mankind , so far as the question concerns mankind . The same things said in prose are very ...
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... but in a nearer and a nearer future . That is what a poet should feel and write for nowadays . That should be the passion in his heart and the fire in his verse . IT CHAPTER I THE POEMS OF 1830 IT is fortunate 52 TENNYSON.
... but in a nearer and a nearer future . That is what a poet should feel and write for nowadays . That should be the passion in his heart and the fire in his verse . IT CHAPTER I THE POEMS OF 1830 IT is fortunate 52 TENNYSON.
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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.