Some Representative Poets of the Nineteenth Century: A Syllabus of University Extension LecturesW. Doxey, 1896 - 76 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. C. McClurg Address American Ancient Sage artist B.-EDUCATION Biglow Papers biography Book born Boston Browning's Byron Carlyle century character Coleridge Commemoration Ode Concord conservatism criticism Dante diction dramas edition Emerson England English Epistle to George Essays ethical expression faith freedom French genius George William Curtis Goethe Harvard Anniversary Herman Grimm Hernani ideal Idylls Immortality influence inspirer Intellectual Beauty Intimations John Lowell Les Misérables Letters lished literary literature Locksley Hall Sixty longer poems Love Lowell's lyric Macmillan Matthew Arnold Memoriam Mifflin Milton mind modern languages moral obscurity Ode to Duty pantheism passion perfect perhaps Pippa Passes poet poetical poetry political prose published by Houghton religion religious Revolution Robert Browning romances satire Scutcheon second series sense Shakspere Shelley Shelley's Sir Launfal social sonnets Sordello soul Southey spiritual Stanzas style Swinburne Tennyson thought Three Memorial Poems tion translations verse Victor Hugo volume Wordsworth Wordsworthiana writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 55 - More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Seite 26 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Seite 57 - ... a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas.
Seite 59 - Perfection, as culture conceives it, is not possible while the individual remains isolated. The individual is required, under pain of being stunted and enfeebled in his own development if he disobeys, to carry others along with him in his march towards perfection, to be continually doing all he can to enlarge and increase the volume of the human stream sweeping thitherward.
Seite 58 - Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.
Seite 48 - Self -poised, imperial, yet of simplest ways ; At home alike in castle or in cot, True to his aim, let others blame or praise. Freedom he found an heirloom from his sires ; Song, letters, statecraft, shared his years in turn ; All went to feed the nation's altar-fires Whose mourning children wreathe...
Seite 33 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Seite 27 - ACT first, this Earth, a stage so gloom'd with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes. And yet be patient. Our Playwright may show In some fifth Act what this wild Drama means.
Seite 6 - I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.
Seite 57 - I said in the words 10 already quoted, "in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is." Thus it tends, at last, to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself.