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... Beauty is truth , truth beauty ' -that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know . This surely , in the context just examined , should cause no metaphysical tremors of excitement or illumination , and need no great profundity or ...
... Beauty is truth , truth beauty ' -that is all Ye know on earth , and all ye need to know . This surely , in the context just examined , should cause no metaphysical tremors of excitement or illumination , and need no great profundity or ...
Page 255
... beauty ' is the term he used ; and in calling what seemed to him the supreme thing in life ' beauty , ' he expressed a given bent - the bent every- where manifested in the quality of his verse , in its ' loveli- ness . ' His concern for ...
... beauty ' is the term he used ; and in calling what seemed to him the supreme thing in life ' beauty , ' he expressed a given bent - the bent every- where manifested in the quality of his verse , in its ' loveli- ness . ' His concern for ...
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... beauty is made truth , truth beauty for Lionel Johnson's phrase is his equivalent for Keats's . But if life is ritual , the beauty that Johnson and Rossetti worship has ( we are moved to frame the corollary ) little to do with life ...
... beauty is made truth , truth beauty for Lionel Johnson's phrase is his equivalent for Keats's . But if life is ritual , the beauty that Johnson and Rossetti worship has ( we are moved to frame the corollary ) little to do with life ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth