The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets, Volumen10Houghton, Mifflin, 1895 - 349 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
æsthetic agnosticism Arnold Asia Atalanta attitude Beatrice beauty breath Browning Browning's Byron calm century charm Christian classical Clough conscious contemplation conviction Dante death deep democracy Demogorgon despair Divine Divine Comedy doubt drama dream earth emotion eternal experience eyes fact Faerie Queene faith feeling force forever freedom gives glory Greek heart heaven Hellenic human humor ideal imagination immortality impulse instinct Keats knights light living lover Matthew Arnold mediæval ment Mephisto Middle Ages modern poets Morris movement mystery mystic nature neo-pagan never pagan pain pantheism Paracelsus passed passion past perfect poems poetic poetry poets Prometheus Unbound pure religious renaissance rendered reverence revolution Rossetti seeks sense serene shadow Shelley Shelley's social song sorrow soul Spenser spirit strong superb supreme Swinburne temper Tennyson theme thou thought Tintern Abbey tion to-day touched triumph true truth turn verse Victorian age Victorian poets vision word Wordsworth
Pasajes populares
Página 8 - The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 256 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? 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...
Página 16 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 30 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 324 - THAT each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet : Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside ; And I shall know him when we meet...
Página 9 - ... if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Página 161 - Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendor of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give.
Página 124 - Life of Life, thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Página 263 - Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes...
Página 13 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length againe, Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate: Then over them Change doth not rule and raigne; But they raigne over Change, and doe their states maintaine.