Formative Types in English Poetry: The Earl Lectures of 1917 |
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... ideals of our race . At the beginning of this chapter I said that poetry records feelings rather than facts or ideals . But the saying may easily be misunderstood . After all , in order to feel one must feel about something . One does ...
... ideals of our race . At the beginning of this chapter I said that poetry records feelings rather than facts or ideals . But the saying may easily be misunderstood . After all , in order to feel one must feel about something . One does ...
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... ideals which men have counted valuable , a truthful history , too , because it shows these ideals not as offered to other persons , but as affecting the mind of the poet himself . A book like the present , which exhibits the gradual ...
... ideals which men have counted valuable , a truthful history , too , because it shows these ideals not as offered to other persons , but as affecting the mind of the poet himself . A book like the present , which exhibits the gradual ...
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... ideals . Certainly not . Why should Chaucer concern himself with such perplexing things ? Would he have been able to depict his characters with his present hearty accuracy if he had also felt obliged to weigh the worth of their springs ...
... ideals . Certainly not . Why should Chaucer concern himself with such perplexing things ? Would he have been able to depict his characters with his present hearty accuracy if he had also felt obliged to weigh the worth of their springs ...
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... ideals and conflict with our desires . Yet ideals and desires are all that lend life worth . It is no wonder , then , that in every literature certain poets turn disdainfully away from reality and live in a region of ideal emotion ...
... ideals and conflict with our desires . Yet ideals and desires are all that lend life worth . It is no wonder , then , that in every literature certain poets turn disdainfully away from reality and live in a region of ideal emotion ...
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... ideal world the struggle between good and evil , beauty and ugliness , is incessant . This contrast between the two poets is espe- cially striking in their estimate of womankind . Chaucer knew women well . He married early , early ...
... ideal world the struggle between good and evil , beauty and ugliness , is incessant . This contrast between the two poets is espe- cially striking in their estimate of womankind . Chaucer knew women well . He married early , early ...
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Page 153 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 177 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 210 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 180 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 248 - Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing...
Page 236 - was written soon after Arthur Hallam's death, and gave my feeling about the need of going forward, and braving the struggle of life perhaps more simply than anything in
Page 253 - The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Page 179 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 266 - 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 178 - Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...