The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J.D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... feel about them . Naturally there- fore every artistic conception to which we give expression will betray something both of our philosophy and of our morality . It cannot be otherwise . In the case of literature the human spirit is ...
... feel about them . Naturally there- fore every artistic conception to which we give expression will betray something both of our philosophy and of our morality . It cannot be otherwise . In the case of literature the human spirit is ...
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... feeling is quite another matter . It is so too of the theological and philosophic writers , like Spinoza and Kant ; they are primarily scientists , not artists . But when you pass from these aus- tere reasoners to a work like Plato's ...
... feeling is quite another matter . It is so too of the theological and philosophic writers , like Spinoza and Kant ; they are primarily scientists , not artists . But when you pass from these aus- tere reasoners to a work like Plato's ...
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... feeling alone would not have been sufficient to make them liter- ature , any more than clear thinking and accurate reason alone could have made Plato's book a piece of literature . We must remember , too , how vapid the artistic xvi THE ...
... feeling alone would not have been sufficient to make them liter- ature , any more than clear thinking and accurate reason alone could have made Plato's book a piece of literature . We must remember , too , how vapid the artistic xvi THE ...
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... feeling for art , which could create a stimulating , artistic atmosphere , and out of which great artists could be born . So much will be readily admitted . But under modern in- dustrial and commercial conditions , the industrial arts ...
... feeling for art , which could create a stimulating , artistic atmosphere , and out of which great artists could be born . So much will be readily admitted . But under modern in- dustrial and commercial conditions , the industrial arts ...
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... feel about it more deeply . Of course prose has this aim in view also , though to a less extent ; and it invades the ... feeling about a subject , is the spiritual pur- pose of art . And this spiritual or moral influence is always ...
... feel about it more deeply . Of course prose has this aim in view also , though to a less extent ; and it invades the ... feeling about a subject , is the spiritual pur- pose of art . And this spiritual or moral influence is always ...
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Page 182 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Page 382 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 96 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Page 85 - Knowledge never learned of schools, Of the wild bee's morning chase, Of the wild flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground-mole sinks his well; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung...
Page 356 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate...
Page 75 - And often after sunset, sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat my supper there. " The first that died was little Jane ; In bed she moaning lay.
Page 74 - Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be ? " " How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. "And where are they? I pray you tell.
Page 73 - Thus Nature spake — the work was done; — How soon my Lucy's race was run! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene; The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
Page 317 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, — How many make the hour full complete ; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year ; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 267 - Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start...