Studies in Literature, 1789-1877C. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 523 pages |
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... future occasion to follow up these essays with others treating of sub- jects from the literature and thought of Germany . Upon the whole I have cared more to understand than b to object ; I have tried rather to interpret than.
... future occasion to follow up these essays with others treating of sub- jects from the literature and thought of Germany . Upon the whole I have cared more to understand than b to object ; I have tried rather to interpret than.
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Edward Dowden. to object ; I have tried rather to interpret than to judge . The imperfection of these attempts at criticism I have felt in reading over my proof - sheets probably as vividly as any other person is likely to feel it ...
Edward Dowden. to object ; I have tried rather to interpret than to judge . The imperfection of these attempts at criticism I have felt in reading over my proof - sheets probably as vividly as any other person is likely to feel it ...
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... object therefore of condolence , not of anger . " 29 Coleridge , at the age of twenty - three , and while the exciting events in France were still in progress , speaks with that judicial tone , that grave benevolence , that ap- parent ...
... object therefore of condolence , not of anger . " 29 Coleridge , at the age of twenty - three , and while the exciting events in France were still in progress , speaks with that judicial tone , that grave benevolence , that ap- parent ...
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... object of earnest thought and hope . Wordsworth never regretted that his youth was one of enthusiastic ardour , of impassioned faith , although his faith and ardour subsequently took upon themselves a new and more spiritual body . And ...
... object of earnest thought and hope . Wordsworth never regretted that his youth was one of enthusiastic ardour , of impassioned faith , although his faith and ardour subsequently took upon themselves a new and more spiritual body . And ...
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... object of their sternest disapprobation ; " an established Church or corporation of priests , as being by position the great depravers of religion , and interested in opposing the progress of the human mind , " was , next after ...
... object of their sternest disapprobation ; " an established Church or corporation of priests , as being by position the great depravers of religion , and interested in opposing the progress of the human mind , " was , next after ...
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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.