 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. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 44by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 pages
...our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. The future of poetry is immense, because in conscious poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies,...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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 268 pages
...misgivings on the subject : — ' The future of poetry,' says he, ' is immense, because in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, aot an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 pages
...poetry obviously applies to painting, sculpture, and music — " is immense, because in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,... | |
 | 1886 - 922 pages
...the culture of that ideal life which man has happily a tendency to develop. These are his words : " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,... | |
 | 1886 - 594 pages
...poetry, inspired by a poet's faith in the abiding truth of Matthew Arnold's words : " Depend upon it, the future of poetry is immense, because, in poetry,...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1887 - 360 pages
...the culture of that ideal life which man has happily a tendency to develop. These are his words : '' The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 588 pages
...believe Mr. Matthew Arnold still holds firm his faith so emphatically repeated not long ago that " the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race will find an ever surer and surer stay." And the publishers have shown in the past twelve months that... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 pages
...163 VII. SHELLEY 205 VIII. COUNT LEO TOLSTOI . . . .253 IX. AMIEL ...... 300 I THE STUDY OF POETEY1 'THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,... | |
 | 1889 - 706 pages
...power." It is only on ' these great terms that Arnold could find the right to declare, "The futyre of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Only the view obtained from the ancient height enables us to say that mankind cannot rest on what is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...forbidding Mourning . 561 Song 563 From Verses to Sir Henry 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 lime goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not... | |
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