Ethics and æsthetics of modern poetry, by J.B. Selkirk1878 |
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... tion , but above it . We do not say conviction is all that is necessary . Oxygen itself would quickly consume life , yet a man must consume oxygen to live . Conviction alone will not produce poetry , but it is an essential component of ...
... tion , but above it . We do not say conviction is all that is necessary . Oxygen itself would quickly consume life , yet a man must consume oxygen to live . Conviction alone will not produce poetry , but it is an essential component of ...
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... tion , ' would open up too wide a field , extending as it does through all the infinite phases and degrees of doubt , from the first shadowy suggestion down to the ultimate utter denial . But that each step downward is hurtful in its ...
... tion , ' would open up too wide a field , extending as it does through all the infinite phases and degrees of doubt , from the first shadowy suggestion down to the ultimate utter denial . But that each step downward is hurtful in its ...
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... tion . There never was a character more spotlessly free from anything even approaching compromise in this respect . His intellectual honesty was without a flaw . Everything went down before his convictions - his living at Oxford ( it ...
... tion . There never was a character more spotlessly free from anything even approaching compromise in this respect . His intellectual honesty was without a flaw . Everything went down before his convictions - his living at Oxford ( it ...
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... tion . It proves how utterly futile is the attempt to stamp out the religious and imaginative instinct , not only in human nature generally , but in the very hearts of those who deny its power , and who are never tired in trying to ...
... tion . It proves how utterly futile is the attempt to stamp out the religious and imaginative instinct , not only in human nature generally , but in the very hearts of those who deny its power , and who are never tired in trying to ...
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... tion of simple fact , no matter how exquisite the thing defined , if it suggest nothing more , is essentially prose . Strike the fundamental note of a stretched string , say low C , on the piano , and if you listen attentively you will ...
... tion of simple fact , no matter how exquisite the thing defined , if it suggest nothing more , is essentially prose . Strike the fundamental note of a stretched string , say low C , on the piano , and if you listen attentively you will ...
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accept admit ÆSCHYLUS æsthetic affectation altogether amongst Arnold artist atheism attempt beauty become believe Browning called cism civilisation common confession conviction creed criticism Crown 8vo culture declared divine doubt earthly ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English English poetry everything exponent eyes fact faith genius Giaours gift give Goethe hand heart heaven Hebrew highest imagination inspiration intellectual J. S. Mill JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS kind less literary literature living Lucretius man's means Memoriam mind MODERN POETRY moral mysticism never obscure Palace of Art perfect perhaps Pheidias philosophy poem poet poet's poetic faculty possess prose prove question reader reason religion religious instinct rhymed rhymed prose scepticism scientific seems sense Shakspeare Shelley side soul speak spiritual strong taste Tennyson theology theory things thorough-bass thought tion true poetry truth turn verse Victorian era words worship write
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Page 148 - Lest she should fail and perish utterly, God, before whom ever lie bare The abysmal deeps of Personality, Plagued her with sore despair. When she would think, where'er she turn'd her sight The airy hand confusion wrought, Wrote, 'Mene, mene...
Page 127 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 163 - I think this is the authentic sign and seal Of Godship, that it ever waxes glad, And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts Into a rage to suffer for mankind, And recommence at sorrow : drops like seed After the blossom, ultimate of all.
Page 220 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o
Page 10 - Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 175 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days...
Page 9 - But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Page 235 - The divorce between song and sense had then reached its utmost range; and to all verses connected with music, from a Birth-day Ode down to the libretto of the last new opera, might fairly be applied the solution Figaro gives of the quality of the words of songs, in general, — 'Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante...
Page 141 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by br oad spreading, it disperse to naught.
Page 150 - That did love Beauty, only (Beauty seen In all varieties of mould and mind,) And Knowledge for its beauty ; or if Good, Good only for its beauty, seeing not That Beauty, Good, and Knowledge are three sisters That dote upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sunder'd without tears...