PoemsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857 - 252 Seiten |
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... to delineate the feelings of one of the last of the Greek religious philosophers , one of the family of Orpheus and Musæus , having survived his fellows , living on into a time when the habits of Greek thought and PREFACE ·
... to delineate the feelings of one of the last of the Greek religious philosophers , one of the family of Orpheus and Musæus , having survived his fellows , living on into a time when the habits of Greek thought and PREFACE ·
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Matthew Arnold. into a time when the habits of Greek thought and feeling had begun fast to change , character to dwindle , the influence of the Sophists to prevail . Into the feelings of a man so situated there entered much that we are ...
Matthew Arnold. into a time when the habits of Greek thought and feeling had begun fast to change , character to dwindle , the influence of the Sophists to prevail . Into the feelings of a man so situated there entered much that we are ...
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... thoughts and images which occur in the treatment of an action . They regarded the whole ; we regard the parts . With them , the action predominated over the ex- pression of it ; with us , the expression predominates over the action ...
... thoughts and images which occur in the treatment of an action . They regarded the whole ; we regard the parts . With them , the action predominated over the ex- pression of it ; with us , the expression predominates over the action ...
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... thought that on any but an excellent subject could an excellent Poem be con- structed . A few actions , therefore , eminently adapted for tragedy , maintained almost exclusive possession of the Greek tragic stage ; their significance ...
... thought that on any but an excellent subject could an excellent Poem be con- structed . A few actions , therefore , eminently adapted for tragedy , maintained almost exclusive possession of the Greek tragic stage ; their significance ...
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... will permit the Poet to select any action he pleases , and to suffer that action to go as it will , provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing , and with a shower of isolated thoughts and images . a 3 PREFACE . xxi.
... will permit the Poet to select any action he pleases , and to suffer that action to go as it will , provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing , and with a shower of isolated thoughts and images . a 3 PREFACE . xxi.
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action Ader-baijan Afrasiab's arms art thou Baltic Sea blood Bokhara breast bright Brittany brow cheeks Children dear chok'd Church of Brou CIRCE clear cold Cornwall dark dost dream earth eyes fame father feel Ferood fight forest grave green grey grief Gudurz hair hand heart Heaven Helmund horse host hour go Iacchus Iseult Jaxartes Kara-Kul Khiva King Kipchak light liv'd live lone lov'd Marguerite mountain Neckan never night o'er Oxus pale pass'd Peran-Wisa Persian lords poem Poet poetical Quick red jackals river pool rolling clouds round Ruksh sail sand sate SCHOLAR GIPSY Seistan Shakspeare shines sings sits sleep Sohrab replied soul spear spoke stood stream sweet Tartar tent Thebes thee thine thou art thou hast thy tablets to-day Tristan TRISTAN AND ISEULT voice wandering warm waves wild wind young youth
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Seite 133 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep ; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Seite 131 - THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away! This way, this way! Call her once before you go — Call once yet! In a voice that she will know: "Margaret! Margaret!
Seite 178 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Seite 195 - Unaffrighted by the silence round them, Undistracted by the sights they see, These demand not that the things without them Yield them love, amusement, sympathy.
Seite 166 - Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Seite 175 - For early didst thou leave the world, with powers Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to their mark, not spent on other things ; Free from the sick fatigue, the languid doubt, Which much to have tried, in much been baffled, brings.
Seite 203 - A WANDERER is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time ; Brimming with wonder and joy He spreads out his arms to the light, Rivets his gaze on the banks of the stream. As what he sees is, so have his thoughts been. Whether he wakes, Where the snowy mountainous pass, Echoing the screams of the eagles...
Seite 148 - On the blanched sands a gloom ; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright sea-weed The ebb-tide leaves dry.
Seite 175 - And then we suffer; and amongst us One, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days; Tells us his misery's birth and growth and signs, And how the dying spark of hope was fed, And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes.
Seite 175 - And snatch' d his rudder, and shook out more sail, And day and night held on indignantly O'er the blue Midland waters with the gale...