Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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... Greek legend , and catching it up at a single point , makes an original poem . He has been reading Homer , that is clear ; but does he imitate Homer ? No ; it is Tennyson tinged with Homer . He makes Ulysses 22 TENNYSON .
... Greek legend , and catching it up at a single point , makes an original poem . He has been reading Homer , that is clear ; but does he imitate Homer ? No ; it is Tennyson tinged with Homer . He makes Ulysses 22 TENNYSON .
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... Greek is his model ; and happily has he sometimes caught the clear Attic note . He is not a modern Greek like Shelley , nor an imitative scholar ; but he has familiarised himself with Athenian poetry until the echo rings in his ears ...
... Greek is his model ; and happily has he sometimes caught the clear Attic note . He is not a modern Greek like Shelley , nor an imitative scholar ; but he has familiarised himself with Athenian poetry until the echo rings in his ears ...
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... Greek , the thought and general feeling of his pieces are tinged with a more modern heathenism . The greatest intellect of modern times cannot but have had an influence on modern thought , even in the English Universities . There is ...
... Greek , the thought and general feeling of his pieces are tinged with a more modern heathenism . The greatest intellect of modern times cannot but have had an influence on modern thought , even in the English Universities . There is ...
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... Greek wine mingled with water for a draught . In saying this , we might convey a false impression , if we did not add that Mr. Arnold is no mere compound ; every thing he writes is perfectly his own ; he has no trace of a copyist , his ...
... Greek wine mingled with water for a draught . In saying this , we might convey a false impression , if we did not add that Mr. Arnold is no mere compound ; every thing he writes is perfectly his own ; he has no trace of a copyist , his ...
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... Greek tragic art , the measure of its short- coming , that it advanced thus far and no farther ; that in its development it rigidly subordinated every thing to the delineation of some great action . This Mr. Arnold thinks its highest ...
... Greek tragic art , the measure of its short- coming , that it advanced thus far and no farther ; that in its development it rigidly subordinated every thing to the delineation of some great action . This Mr. Arnold thinks its highest ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro