Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern LifePutnam, 1894 - 516 pages |
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... lines ; and in this sense , in the complete sincerity to his inner being of all he did and in the manner of its doing , he was simple in the truest sense of the word . Nothing was ever done for effect ; no subject in which he was not ...
... lines ; and in this sense , in the complete sincerity to his inner being of all he did and in the manner of its doing , he was simple in the truest sense of the word . Nothing was ever done for effect ; no subject in which he was not ...
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... lines of thought in philosophy and theology , but he expressed them with art — that is , in beautiful form proceeding out- wards from impassioned feeling ; and a poem like The Two Voices or Out of the Deep is an instance of the way this ...
... lines of thought in philosophy and theology , but he expressed them with art — that is , in beautiful form proceeding out- wards from impassioned feeling ; and a poem like The Two Voices or Out of the Deep is an instance of the way this ...
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... line he takes is the line of careful protection of the old against the onset of the new , of steady but very prudent advance through obe- dience to existing law , of protest against that which he calls " raw haste , " of discouraging of ...
... line he takes is the line of careful protection of the old against the onset of the new , of steady but very prudent advance through obe- dience to existing law , of protest against that which he calls " raw haste , " of discouraging of ...
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... lines which begin : And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow , When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow . That , and the rest of them , smack of the passionate poet . But this vague fire did ...
... lines which begin : And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise Her beautiful bold brow , When rites and forms before his burning eyes Melted like snow . That , and the rest of them , smack of the passionate poet . But this vague fire did ...
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... lines that iso- late natural phenomena , prove how far he had left behind him the aimless looseness of the Poems of Two Brothers , but do not prophesy the distinctive power which Tenny- son had afterwards over Nature . The one charm of ...
... lines that iso- late natural phenomena , prove how far he had left behind him the aimless looseness of the Poems of Two Brothers , but do not prophesy the distinctive power which Tenny- son had afterwards over Nature . The one charm of ...
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Page 478 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
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 162 - But follow ; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley ; let the wild Lean-headed eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air. So waste not thou, but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets...
Page 123 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 242 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
Page 411 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 126 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Page 486 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
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 451 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.