The Age of TennysonG. Bell and Sons, 1904 - 309 pages |
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... tion which had ever bewitched the human imagination- at least , outside Africa . ' Again , he would admit no accepted theological creed , and was consequently looked on askance by the accredited leaders of religion . Anything like ...
... tion which had ever bewitched the human imagination- at least , outside Africa . ' Again , he would admit no accepted theological creed , and was consequently looked on askance by the accredited leaders of religion . Anything like ...
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... tion expanded into a European movement , but within the limits Carlyle set to himself it was essentially French . Frederick was the centre of a movement which Carlyle found could only be treated as a European one . He was led by the ...
... tion expanded into a European movement , but within the limits Carlyle set to himself it was essentially French . Frederick was the centre of a movement which Carlyle found could only be treated as a European one . He was led by the ...
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... tion must be adjudged the palm of excellence in its class . Various arguments might be adduced on both sides , and it would be rash to pronounce definitely . For the earlier work it might be pleaded that it is clearly the more per- fect ...
... tion must be adjudged the palm of excellence in its class . Various arguments might be adduced on both sides , and it would be rash to pronounce definitely . For the earlier work it might be pleaded that it is clearly the more per- fect ...
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... tion , and he reaped the whirlwind of opposition , rejection , sometimes of vituperation . It is vain to wish that he had done otherwise ; he could only do as his character allowed him to do ; but we shall do well to recognise that ...
... tion , and he reaped the whirlwind of opposition , rejection , sometimes of vituperation . It is vain to wish that he had done otherwise ; he could only do as his character allowed him to do ; but we shall do well to recognise that ...
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... tion , of charity and of kindliness breathes over the whole , as if Carlyle still felt the influence of his dead friend . He has written greater things , but none perhaps equally delightful . It is necessary to add a word about ...
... tion , of charity and of kindliness breathes over the whole , as if Carlyle still felt the influence of his dead friend . He has written greater things , but none perhaps equally delightful . It is necessary to add a word about ...
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Page 239 - Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin...
Page 238 - There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I might not see: Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
Page 207 - Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.
Page 101 - I'll walk where my own nature would be leading : It vexes me to choose another guide : Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding ; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.
Page 233 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 78 - One advantage, I think, I still have over all of them. They may do their fooling with better grace ; but I, like Sir Andrew Aguecheek. do it more natural. They have to read old books, and consult antiquarian collections, to get their knowledge ; I write because I have long since read such works, and possess, thanks to a strong memory, the information which they have to seek for.
Page 189 - Sedgwick of the fact, and he at once said (no doubt truly) that it must have been thrown away by some one into the pit ; but then added, if really embedded there it would be the greatest misfortune to geology, as it would overthrow all that we know about the superficial deposits of the Midland Counties.
Page 149 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
Page 251 - I know thee as my mother's face. When sunset bathes thee in his gold, In wreaths of bronze thy sides are rolled, Thy smoke is dusky fire; And, from the glory round thee poured, A sunbeam like an angel's sword Shivers upon a spire. , ; Thus have I watched thee, Terror! Dream! While the blue Night crept up the stream.
Page 101 - What have those lonely mountains worth revealing ? More glory and more grief than I can tell : The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.