The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... Certainly I hardly met anyone during my whole Oxford life to whom I was so strongly drawn . Among the many qualities which so greatly attracted me were his unusual conscientiousness and high- mindedness and public spirit . As regarded ...
... Certainly I hardly met anyone during my whole Oxford life to whom I was so strongly drawn . Among the many qualities which so greatly attracted me were his unusual conscientiousness and high- mindedness and public spirit . As regarded ...
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... certainly all the tutors , and I believe all the undergraduates -greatly appreciated his singularly high principle and his ex- emplary spotlessness of life . ' We give another sketch of him during his undergraduate period , furnished by ...
... certainly all the tutors , and I believe all the undergraduates -greatly appreciated his singularly high principle and his ex- emplary spotlessness of life . ' We give another sketch of him during his undergraduate period , furnished by ...
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... certainly should leave these controversies to them- selves , were they not in some measure forced upon my notice . Of joining any sect I have not the most distant intention . ' This year he spent chiefly at home ; and , in the winter of ...
... certainly should leave these controversies to them- selves , were they not in some measure forced upon my notice . Of joining any sect I have not the most distant intention . ' This year he spent chiefly at home ; and , in the winter of ...
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... certainly be in the sixth form next half- year . I am now seventh , and ten at least of the Præposters leave either now or at Lawrence Sheriffe . * To his Brother George . School House , Rugby : October 13 , 1834 . MY DEAR GEORGY , -You ...
... certainly be in the sixth form next half- year . I am now seventh , and ten at least of the Præposters leave either now or at Lawrence Sheriffe . * To his Brother George . School House , Rugby : October 13 , 1834 . MY DEAR GEORGY , -You ...
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... certainly at this moment not at its very highest state of excel- lence , such as it was in two or three years ago , but there is a very great deal of goodness and talent springing up , I hope and believe . From some cause or other ...
... certainly at this moment not at its very highest state of excel- lence , such as it was in two or three years ago , but there is a very great deal of goodness and talent springing up , I hope and believe . From some cause or other ...
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Page 276 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 375 - And so she sings her fill, Singing most joyfully, Till the spindle drops from her hand, And the whizzing wheel stands still. She steals to the window, and looks at the sand, And over the sand at the sea; And her eyes are set in a stare...
Page 374 - 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...
Page 320 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 392 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 323 - Through busiest street and loneliest glen Are felt the flashes of his pen : He rules mid winter snows, and when Bees fill their hives : Deep in the general heart of men His power survives.
Page 16 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 390 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 375 - On the blanch'd sands a gloom; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white, sleeping town; At the church on the hill-side — And then come back down. Singing: "There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.
Page 381 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.