 Let him in whose ears the low-voiced Best is killed by the clash of the First, Who holds that, if way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst, Who feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1711919Full view - About this book
 | 1926 - 536 pages
...though he walks into shadow, he does so in order that he may walk through it, may see it what it is. "If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst." It is not possible for a great artist to escape acute awareness of the element of tragedy in life,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1902 - 288 pages
...such an one be here ? ... DE PROFUNDIS 217 Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First, Who holds that if way to...cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here. 1895-96. DE PROFUNDIS III " Heu mihi, quia... | |
 | 1903 - 636 pages
...contains a sarcastic vindication of his method. Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best Seems stilled by the clash of the First, Who holds that if way to...Cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry : He disturbs the order here. In the poems we have a freer use of the vernacular—not... | |
 | Helena Swan - 1904 - 630 pages
...BROWNING, Dramatic Lyrics : Saul, JX., II. 17-8. Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First, Who holds that if way to...cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry ; he disturbs the order here. THOMAS HARDY, Poems of the Past and the Present... | |
 | 1926 - 786 pages
...suggest that man shall have more knowledge of the secret laws of nature and the realm of the unknown. "Who holds that if way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst ?" Hardy holds that man shall always exchange blows with Fate in the vast battlefield we call the world,... | |
 | Helen Garwood - 1911 - 106 pages
...unknown. All that there is in him of this nature is the insistence that it is better to know the worst. "Who holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst." The change that he is going to find satisfactory must be more fun-^. damental and far-reaching than... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1916 - 248 pages
...many smiles to a tear ; Then what is the matter is I, I say. Why should such an one be here f . . . Let him in whose ears the low-voiced Best is killed...cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear. Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry ; he disturbs the order here. 1895-96. 1 I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES " I HAVE... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pages
...discern what to these is so clear, The blot seems straightway in me alone; one better he were not here. Let him in whose ears the low-voiced Best is killed...cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry: he disturbs the order here. So we get our Hardy humanised even more than... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 578 pages
...say. Why should such an one be here ? . . . Let him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First, Who holds that if way to...cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear, Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry ; he disturbs the order here. IN TENEBRIS III " Heu mihi, quia incolatus... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1922 - 324 pages
...this relation more than twenty years ago, and wrote much earlier, in a poem entitled "In Tenebris": If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst: that is to say, by the exploration of reality, and its frank recognition stage by stage along the survey,... | |
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