 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
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 pages
...that part of the production of Arnold himself which is secure of immortality — the part in which " our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay," is the part in which he has allowed his genius and his temperament to take their natural unimpeded... | |
 | Lloyd Mifflin - 1897 - 222 pages
...away, grow larger and stronger as the years increase. With a fine enthusiasm Matthew Arnold has said, " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. More and more mankind .will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...exquisite "simples." His faith in poetry is intense and absolute ; " the future of poetry," he declares, " is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." This declaration contrasts strikingly with Macaulay's pessimistic theory of the essentially make-believe... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...intense and absolute ; " the future of pcetry," he declares, " is immense, because in poetry, whtre it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." This declaration contrasts strikingly with Macaulay 's pessimistic theory of the essentially make-believe... | |
 | 1897 - 568 pages
...the range of the unknown infinite, thus always giving imagination largest scope." Mathew Arnold says: "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. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...that poetry would disappear with the full maturity of our race. On the contrary, he maintained that " the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." While insisting on beauty of form, he laid particular stress on truth and value of substance. In one... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...Mourning 561 Song 563 From Verses to Sir Henry Wootton 564 TheWUl •.-,-. . . 565 INTRODUCTION. ' 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,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1900 - 456 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 630 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,...its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will rind an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...opinion on the matter, since we have Matthew Arnold's authority for the statement that "in poetry, when it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." Poetry which is to fulfil a duty of that kind must not be of a decadent order. Now modern society finds... | |
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