Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford, 1895-1900

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370 ページ - my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount! I fly ! 0 Grave, where is thy victory ? 0 Death ! where is thy sting
403 ページ - I know not: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. And so
370 ページ - Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, 0 quit, this mortal frame, Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, 0 the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife ! And let me languish into life. Hark they whisper : Angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite,
376 ページ - Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine, But show no mercy to an empty line ; Then polish all with so much life and ease, You think 'tis Nature and a knack to please. " But ease in writing comes from art not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
370 ページ - in the Universal Prayer: Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Thou first great Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined, To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind
397 ページ - not in vain. Are not the mountains, waves, and skies a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion ? should I not contemn All objects, if compared with these t and stem A tide of suffering, rather than
208 ページ - Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
336 ページ - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me for thou knowest. . . . What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support. To
356 ページ - First follow Nature and your judgment frame By her just standard which is still the same. Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart At once the source, and end, and test of art.
387 ページ - No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own : I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel; By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown; Unless this general evil they maintain, All men are bad, and in their badness reign. But

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