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... . THE STUDY OF POETRY II . MILTON PAGE 56 III . THOMAS GRAY 69 IV . JOHN KEATS . 100 V. WORDSWORTH 122 VI . BYRON 163 VII . SHELLEY 205 VIII . COUNT LEO TOLSTOI 253 IX . AMIEL . 300 I THE STUDY OF POETRY ' ' THE future of.
... . THE STUDY OF POETRY II . MILTON PAGE 56 III . THOMAS GRAY 69 IV . JOHN KEATS . 100 V. WORDSWORTH 122 VI . BYRON 163 VII . SHELLEY 205 VIII . COUNT LEO TOLSTOI 253 IX . AMIEL . 300 I THE STUDY OF POETRY ' ' THE future of.
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... count to us historically , they may count to us on grounds per- sonal to ourselves , and they may count to us really . They may count to us historically . The hestern 10 course of development of a nation's language , ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
... count to us historically , they may count to us on grounds per- sonal to ourselves , and they may count to us really . They may count to us historically . The hestern 10 course of development of a nation's language , ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
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... count to us on grounds per- sonal to ourselves . Our personal affinities , likings , and circumstances , have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's work , and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in ...
... count to us on grounds per- sonal to ourselves . Our personal affinities , likings , and circumstances , have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's work , and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in ...
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... count as no slight one . But the daily life of hap- piness in common things and in domestic affec- tions - a life of which , to Milton as to Dante , too small a share was given - he seems to have known most , if not only , in his one ...
... count as no slight one . But the daily life of hap- piness in common things and in domestic affec- tions - a life of which , to Milton as to Dante , too small a share was given - he seems to have known most , if not only , in his one ...
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... counts for far more than many even of his admirers suppose , because this just and high perception made itself clear to him . Therefore a dignity and a glory shed gleams over his life , and happiness , too , was not a stranger to it ...
... counts for far more than many even of his admirers suppose , because this just and high perception made itself clear to him . Therefore a dignity and a glory shed gleams over his life , and happiness , too , was not a stranger to it ...
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Page 47 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 65 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 200 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 49 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 38 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 191 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 19 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 1 - The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.
Page 18 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 156 - To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues...