Studies in Literature, 1789-1877C. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 523 pages |
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... accept the same facts with a certain equanimity . In one of the addresses delivered at Bristol in 1795 , and which formed his first prose work , the youthful apostle of the doctrine of philosophical necessity ( a doctrine which he ...
... accept the same facts with a certain equanimity . In one of the addresses delivered at Bristol in 1795 , and which formed his first prose work , the youthful apostle of the doctrine of philosophical necessity ( a doctrine which he ...
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... accept , for the sake of France , life as a sacrifice or the sacrifice of death . Coleridge's dream of pantisocracy had just resolved itself into air , before he delivered his Bristol The French Revolution and Literature . 13.
... accept , for the sake of France , life as a sacrifice or the sacrifice of death . Coleridge's dream of pantisocracy had just resolved itself into air , before he delivered his Bristol The French Revolution and Literature . 13.
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... accepted grief- " I turn thy leaves : I feel their breath Once more upon me roll ; That air of languor , cold , and death Which brooded o'er thy soul . * * " Though here a mountain murmur swells Of many a dark - bough'd pine , Though ...
... accepted grief- " I turn thy leaves : I feel their breath Once more upon me roll ; That air of languor , cold , and death Which brooded o'er thy soul . * * " Though here a mountain murmur swells Of many a dark - bough'd pine , Though ...
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... accepted in his own day . If jarring forces strove in Byron , they strove also in the world around him . One thing he constantly expresses— the individualism of the earlier Revolutionary epoch , and the emptiness and sterility of the ...
... accepted in his own day . If jarring forces strove in Byron , they strove also in the world around him . One thing he constantly expresses— the individualism of the earlier Revolutionary epoch , and the emptiness and sterility of the ...
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... accept courageously the rudeness of our vast industrial civilization . The results of that other movement also , the scientific , which Mr Ruskin passionately reproaches or regards with smiling disdain , we accept with gratitude . And ...
... accept courageously the rudeness of our vast industrial civilization . The results of that other movement also , the scientific , which Mr Ruskin passionately reproaches or regards with smiling disdain , we accept with gratitude . And ...
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Page 101 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 172 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Page 522 - Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Page 203 - Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm : Then springs the crowning race of humankind. May these things be ! ' Sighing she spoke
Page 224 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 52 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Page 200 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 216 - While man knows partly but conceives beside, Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts' : God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Page 209 - I wanted warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot - now I see thee what thou art, Thou art the highest and most human too, Not Lancelot, nor another. Is there none Will tell the King I love him tho
Page 224 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard ; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it by-and-by.