Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern LifeIsbister, 1894 - 490 pages |
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... careful and self- respecting , suggests and comments on almost every question that concerns the art of poetry . For more than sixty years he lived close to the present life of England , as far as he was capable of INTRODUCTION.
... careful and self- respecting , suggests and comments on almost every question that concerns the art of poetry . For more than sixty years he lived close to the present life of England , as far as he was capable of INTRODUCTION.
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... present . New- man looked back to the past ( the nearer to the Apostles the nearer to truth ) for the highest point to which religious life , but not doctrine , had attained , and his immense reverence for the past became part of the ...
... present . New- man looked back to the past ( the nearer to the Apostles the nearer to truth ) for the highest point to which religious life , but not doctrine , had attained , and his immense reverence for the past became part of the ...
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... the necessary continuance on the same hypothesis of each man's personal con- sciousness in a life to be ; the necessary vitality of the present - that deep need for high poetic work - man alive and Nature alive and alive with 22 22 ...
... the necessary continuance on the same hypothesis of each man's personal con- sciousness in a life to be ; the necessary vitality of the present - that deep need for high poetic work - man alive and Nature alive and alive with 22 22 ...
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... present day . But if that be all , then a great number of persons will deny him the right to call himself a Christian . In their mind a Christian man must have a distinct faith in Jesus as God , as the unique Saviour of man , and as a ...
... present day . But if that be all , then a great number of persons will deny him the right to call himself a Christian . In their mind a Christian man must have a distinct faith in Jesus as God , as the unique Saviour of man , and as a ...
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... present in which he lived . But he also brought into the present an immense reverence for the past , and that is one of the strongest foundations of his patriotism . The poem , which begins Love thou thy land , with love far - brought ...
... present in which he lived . But he also brought into the present an immense reverence for the past , and that is one of the strongest foundations of his patriotism . The poem , which begins Love thou thy land , with love far - brought ...
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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.