 THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.  The Arnoldian - Page 701979Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 840 pages
...work of any one of his contemporaries. " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." THEODORE WATTS. From The Contemporary Review. THE BANDITTI OF CORSICA. THE vendetta is a thing of the... | |
 | 1880 - 400 pages
...Nineteenth Century. THE ENGLISH POETS. " Tire future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a crec-d which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 pages
...conscience, and walk, hand, Mr. Matthew Arnold, in his Introduction to The English Poets, says that our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay in Poetry. "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...the several streams that make the might/ " THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will fin" an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a crefid which is DO! shaken, not an accredited dogma... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 268 pages
...enduring fountains ? Mr. Arnold has no misgivings on the subject : — ' The future of poetry,' says he, ' is immense, because in poetry, when it is worthy of...surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, aot an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does... | |
 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 pages
...to-day is its unconscious poetry. The future of poetry is immense, because in conscious poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. MATTHEW ARNOLD. HOMER. NINTH CENTL'RY В.C. THE FATHER OF POETS EVERY nation has its heroic age, and... | |
 | 1886 - 594 pages
...Matthew Arnold's words : " Depend upon it, the future of poetry is immense, because, in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer, and surer stay." To those who have read the separate papers only as they have appeared from time to time, and at long... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...Wootton 564 The Will 565 INTRODUCTION. ' THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dotjma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1890 - 294 pages
...himself, thus reaffirming his opinion, says: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find a surer and ever surer stay. There is not a. creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 pages
...and no one was more qualified to speak, " The future of Poetry is immense, because in Poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. But for Poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry... | |
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