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admirable æsthetic ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH beauty believe Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich Carlyle character characteristic Claude Clough creed criticism dark despair Dipsychus dream earth emotion Empedocles on Etna Endymion English Essays expression eyes fact faith feeling Forman's edition G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS genius Grande Chartreuse habit heart hope human ideal influence inspiration intellectual interesting John Keats Keats Keats's less letters Literature live look man's Marcus Aurelius Matthew Arnold melancholy ment mental mind modern mood moral nature Obermann once ourselves pagan passage philosophic poem poet poet's poetic poetry present problems Prose Remains question reality realize relation religious Rugby Rugby Chapel Senancour sense Shelley skepticism Sonnet soul speculation spiritual Stanzas struggle temper tendencies things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion touch true truth turn utterances verse vision words Wordsworth writes young
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Page 25 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 40 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, 80 That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 16 - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Page 49 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 219 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 41 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 161 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 49 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 218 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 173 - Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.