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... never agree , and its meetings dropped into abeyance almost immediately . From the start I absolutely refused compromise to advertisers , supporters , famous people , or friends ; I insisted on bad verse being called bad verse as often ...
... never agree , and its meetings dropped into abeyance almost immediately . From the start I absolutely refused compromise to advertisers , supporters , famous people , or friends ; I insisted on bad verse being called bad verse as often ...
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... never likely to be , warranted by established facts . It is not specially from the Greeks that we are distinguished , for instance , by our " picture - gallery sense of beauty " coupled with our gross indifference to the ugliness of our ...
... never likely to be , warranted by established facts . It is not specially from the Greeks that we are distinguished , for instance , by our " picture - gallery sense of beauty " coupled with our gross indifference to the ugliness of our ...
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... never roam , True to the kindred points of heaven and home , being more than worth all Shelley's laborious similes . Since I am known to the very few people who know me at all as a humble disciple of William Morris and the so - called ...
... never roam , True to the kindred points of heaven and home , being more than worth all Shelley's laborious similes . Since I am known to the very few people who know me at all as a humble disciple of William Morris and the so - called ...
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... never be the rose itself . And it is here that you ulti- mately discover the practical weakness of Mr Craig's position when in his philosophic ( as opposed to his artistic ) person . He says that no man in the world ever could produce ...
... never be the rose itself . And it is here that you ulti- mately discover the practical weakness of Mr Craig's position when in his philosophic ( as opposed to his artistic ) person . He says that no man in the world ever could produce ...
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... never but a vain name , and no essential thing ? says Sidney in a long passage on Virtue . Webster makes it a shade more visual , and twenty times as impressive : Or is it true thou art but a bare name And no essential thing ? 1 So ...
... never but a vain name , and no essential thing ? says Sidney in a long passage on Virtue . Webster makes it a shade more visual , and twenty times as impressive : Or is it true thou art but a bare name And no essential thing ? 1 So ...
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Page 188 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 343 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 129 - It is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time limits and space limits; that sense of sudden growth, which we experience in the presence of the greatest works of art.
Page 57 - They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
Page 370 - Festoon you with may. Time, you old gipsy, Why hasten away? Last week in Babylon, Last night in Rome, Morning, and in the crush Under Paul's dome; Under Paul's dial You tighten your rein — Only a moment, And off once again; Off to some city Now blind in the womb, Off to another Ere that's in the tomb. Time, you old gipsy man...
Page 127 - thing" whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
Page 62 - AUTUMN A TOUCH of cold in the Autumn night — I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to speak, but nodded, And round about were the wistful stars With white faces like town children.
Page 239 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Page 453 - ... confer, That Eden of Love's watered ways Whose winds and spirits worship her. Brows, hands, and lips, heart, mind, and voice, . Kisses and words of Love-Lily, — Oh ! bid me with your joy rejoice Till riotous longing rest in me ! Ah ! let not hope be still distraught, But find in her its gracious goal, Whose speech Truth knows not from her thought Nor Love her body from her soul.
Page 31 - Some would think the souls of princes were brought forth by some more weighty cause than those of meaner persons : they are deceived, there's the same hand to them ; the like passions sway them ; the same reason that makes a vicar to go to law for a tithe-pig, and undo his neighbours, makes them spoil a whole province, and batter down goodly cities with the cannon.