 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...in Mr. Arnold's opinion, is in future to be a substitute for religion. " More and more," lie says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1885 - 972 pages
...wise utterances) that " the strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." When that... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1886 - 312 pages
...it luis hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and moro mankind will discover that wo have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well doc:) Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1884 - 500 pages
...other extreme of life. " Hallam, indeed, does not place poetry as high as Mr. Matthew Arnold : — " More and more mankind will discover that we have to...turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...tells us to conceive of poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and more mankind will discover that we have to...turn to poetry to interpret life for us. to console and sustain us. Scic-nce will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | Roden Noel - English poetry - 1886 - 394 pages
...poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive it. " More and more," he says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1899 - 796 pages
...explanation of criticism and to the further elucidation of the thought which is contained in the phrases " We turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us ; " but he reflects that he would be a rash critic who should try to judge any piece of music in that... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in...Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, anil most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. 4146 Matthew... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 632 pages
...been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and VOL. i. \> called to higher destinies, than those which in general...have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind ivill discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...in Mr. Arnold's opinion, is in future to be a substitute for religion. " More and more," he says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of... | |
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More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. 
