Two Essays Upon Matthew Arnold with Some of His Letters to the AuthorElkin Mathews, 1897 - 122 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 51 - And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Σελίδα 51 - O may some spark of your celestial fire The last, the meanest, of your sons inspire; (That on weak wings, from far, pursues your flights; Glows while he reads, but trembles as he writes) To teach vain wits a science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own.
Σελίδα 13 - and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain
Σελίδα 13 - Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry
Σελίδα 51 - Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb thro'; He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain; The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines.
Σελίδα 11 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." It is more convincing to take a few examples and compare them with test passages from the great masters, than to assert that Matthew Arnold's poetry has various abstract qualities of style, such as " restraint," severity," directness," or "simplicity.
Σελίδα 11 - The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd
Σελίδα 11 - its manner and style. Both of these, the substance and matter on the one hand, the style and manner on the other, have a mark, an accent, of high beauty, worth, and power. But if we are asked to define this mark and accent in the abstract, our answer must be: No, for we should
Σελίδα 50 - The first consideration for us is not whether we are amused and pleased by a work of art or mind, nor is it whether we are touched by it. What we seek above all to learn is, whether we were right in being amused with it, and in applauding it, and being moved by it.