The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... turn , and he had ten children , of whom James Butler Clough was the third . This son was the first of his family to leave the neighbourhood of their old house in Wales . He removed to Liverpool , where he settled and went into ' 2 LIFE ...
... turn , and he had ten children , of whom James Butler Clough was the third . This son was the first of his family to leave the neighbourhood of their old house in Wales . He removed to Liverpool , where he settled and went into ' 2 LIFE ...
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... turn- ing - point of his life . He began his residence at Oxford when the University was stirred to its depths by the great Tractarian movement . Dr. Newman was in the fullness of his popularity , preaching at St. Mary's , and in ...
... turn- ing - point of his life . He began his residence at Oxford when the University was stirred to its depths by the great Tractarian movement . Dr. Newman was in the fullness of his popularity , preaching at St. Mary's , and in ...
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... turn them over and bring them out in the new light of his critical but kindly philosophy . This , in Mari Magno , ' he had begun to do , and the rapid production of these last poems makes us believe that this new vein would have ...
... turn them over and bring them out in the new light of his critical but kindly philosophy . This , in Mari Magno , ' he had begun to do , and the rapid production of these last poems makes us believe that this new vein would have ...
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... turn and set his sails to catch light favouring winds . He could not use spare half - hours to write well - paid reviews , or popular articles , or even poetry . The demand for his wares seemed to spoil the supply . That it should be ...
... turn and set his sails to catch light favouring winds . He could not use spare half - hours to write well - paid reviews , or popular articles , or even poetry . The demand for his wares seemed to spoil the supply . That it should be ...
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... turns , a fountain at intervals playing ; Mute and abstracted , or strong and abundant as rain in the tropic On special occasions he would pour out the accumulation of his mind , but most often the stream remained hid , and only came to ...
... turns , a fountain at intervals playing ; Mute and abstracted , or strong and abundant as rain in the tropic On special occasions he would pour out the accumulation of his mind , but most often the stream remained hid , and only came to ...
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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.