Studies in IdealismJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1923 - 278 páginas |
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Página vii
... pleasure of those who are already wed to her , or help the diffident to approach her with discretion . For men are first drawn to poetry by instinct . Poetry interprets life emotionally , and save with natures of a rare and precocious ...
... pleasure of those who are already wed to her , or help the diffident to approach her with discretion . For men are first drawn to poetry by instinct . Poetry interprets life emotionally , and save with natures of a rare and precocious ...
Página xx
... pleasure , if he is to serve truth as well as life , a poet must , however unconsciously , evolve from his impressions a synthesis , a profound attitude towards life which colours all his experience and gives tone to his lightest ...
... pleasure , if he is to serve truth as well as life , a poet must , however unconsciously , evolve from his impressions a synthesis , a profound attitude towards life which colours all his experience and gives tone to his lightest ...
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... pleasure and charm , some degree of philosophical reason- ing must enter into the serious critic's method of exposition . To reflect upon life and upon oneself , and so to master both and direct them aright , I take to be the tendency ...
... pleasure and charm , some degree of philosophical reason- ing must enter into the serious critic's method of exposition . To reflect upon life and upon oneself , and so to master both and direct them aright , I take to be the tendency ...
Página xxiv
... pleasures . Our manhood protests that we should take our small part in trying to lessen that pain for the future . Reason in its amplest exercise alone can do that service , and as science can conquer physical pain , and philosophy ...
... pleasures . Our manhood protests that we should take our small part in trying to lessen that pain for the future . Reason in its amplest exercise alone can do that service , and as science can conquer physical pain , and philosophy ...
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... be true both to life and to truth . Particularly in the nineteenth century , with its unexampled fertility , do we find instances of poetry pursuing a superficial pleasure and cultivating a spurious charm . OF POETRY 21.
... be true both to life and to truth . Particularly in the nineteenth century , with its unexampled fertility , do we find instances of poetry pursuing a superficial pleasure and cultivating a spurious charm . OF POETRY 21.
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absolute accepted admit Æschylus æsthetic animal artist Augustan Augustan poetry beauty Blake brutal casuistry century conception consciousness creative creed critical cultivated D. H. LAWRENCE desire discord distinct divine dogma dualism earth ecstasy egotism elements Elizabethan embodied emotion energy English poetry escape eternal exaggerated existence experience expression fact faculties faith false fancy feeling forces genius Goethe harmony heaven human hypochondria idea ideal idealist imagination impressionism impulse indulgence inevitable infinite inspired instinct intellectual intelligence intuition less liberty licence live logic man's material matter mediæval mind modern moral mystical nature nature's never Nietzsche pagan passion perfect philosophy physical poem poet poet's poetry primitive principle Protestantism pure Puritanism rational realise reality reason Romantic Romanticism sensation sense sensibility sentiment soul spirit sublime surrender sympathy things thought tion transcend Troilus and Criseyde true truth universal values Victorian Victorian Age Victorian literature virtue vision vital Wordsworth
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Página 88 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 149 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Página 216 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 104 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Página 208 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul and form All melted into him : they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Página 105 - Peace My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a winged sentry All skilful in the wars; There, above noise and danger, Sweet peace sits crowned with smiles, And one born in a manger Commands the beauteous files.
Página 131 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Página 108 - I GOT me flowers to straw Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the east, Though he give light, and th' east perfume; If they should offer to contest With Thy arising, they presume.
Página 150 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair; I hear her in the tunefu...
Página 154 - To Mercy Pity Peace and Love, All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love, Is God our father dear: And Mercy Pity Peace and Love. Is Man his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.