Essays, Speculative and SuggestiveSmith, Elder, & Company, 1907 - 431 sider |
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Side 403 - Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matters of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again. But
Side 268 - the following passage:' I speak the pass-word primeval—I give the sign of democracy ; By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Thus Democracy implies the absolute equality of heritage possessed by every man and woman in the good and evil of
Side 347 - If I remember rightly, he says that he meant his works ' to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous.
Side 335 - There's no lust like to poetry ;' when Goethe asserts, ' Die Kunst ist nur Gestaltung;' when Shelley writes, ' Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds,
Side 316 - All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing the unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees, and beasts, and men, into the heaven's light. It is
Side 346 - is both conceived and written in the poet's stateliest mood ; yet it halts at intervals on lines like these: But makes his moral being his prime care .... By objects, which might force the soul to abate Her feeling, rendered more compassionate. Will Frenchmen, habituated to look for sustained evenness of style in composition,
Side 135 - He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy bloom, Nor heed, nor see what things they be, But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality,
Side 310 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he (man) is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. The
Side 350 - is no common waste, no common gloom; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known But, at the coming of the milder day, These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Side 139 - us.' All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good. Such