Studies in Victorian LiteratureE.P. Dutton, 1923 - 299 Seiten |
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1817 LIBRARIES Argemone Arnold's poetry Arnold's theories attitude beauty believe Blessed Damozel boyhood Brimley Brimley's Browning Byron Carlyle Carlyle's Christian Socialists Church Clough Coleridge concerning contemporaries Corn Law declared Ebenezer Elliott Elliott England English fact faith father feeling Forsaken Merman genius Gosse Greek heaven Hood Hughes ideal ideas influence interest John Sterling Kingsley Kingsley's labour Lancelot Landor laws less letters literary manner Matthew Arnold Maurice de Guérin merely MICHIGAN Mill mind modern mood moral profundity Mycerinus natural magic never Newman nineteenth century novels Oxford Oxford Movement Past and Present person Philistine poem poetic poets poor popular praise Preface prose reader religion remarked romance Rossetti Rugby Samson says seems Shelley Sohrab and Rustum speak spirit Sterling's Strayed Reveller student style subject and action Swinburne Tennyson theme thing thought tion Tom Brown truth UNIVERS verse Victorian literature Wordsworth writes written wrote Yeast
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Seite 11 - ... like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle; attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there.
Seite 75 - My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning ; yet, because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly...
Seite 156 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Seite 239 - It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so : That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not falL 'PERCHE PENSA?
Seite 168 - And chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life...
Seite 17 - CARLYLE, — For the first time for many months • it seems possible to send you a few words ; merely, however, ' for Remembrance and Farewell. On higher matters there ' is nothing to say. I tread the common road into the great ' darkness, without any thought of fear, and with very much of t ' hope. Certainty indeed I have none.
Seite 221 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more; For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 138 - And -in a hollow voice he spake, and said:— ' Sohrab, that were a proof which could not lie! If thou show this, then art thou Rustum's son.
Seite 115 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Seite 130 - Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time.