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" But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. "
Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 30
by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pages
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry

James Brown Selkirk - 1878 - 256 pages
...plaint breaks forth in a lyrical burst unsurpassed in modern poetry for grandeur and breadth : — The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. If Mr. Arnold's poetical theory be true, when speaking of Heine, he tells us that all genius is but...
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Latter-day Lyrics: Being Poems of Sentiment and Reflection by Living Writers

William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of...
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The Literary World, Volume 9

1878 - 144 pages
...the unreturning past, a deep unrest in the present, and an almost hopeless turning toward the future. "The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. Hut now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the...
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The Literary World, Volumes 9-10

1878 - 638 pages
...once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. Hut now 1 only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear Aud naked shingles of the world." Mr. Arnold's sonnets are the...
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Mr. Matthew Arnold as Critic and Poet: (Read Before the Liverpool ...

James Willcox Alsop - 1879 - 40 pages
...stand mute and watch the waves." So, too, in the short but exquisite poem called " Dover Beach " :— " The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its mcluucholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind down the vast edges...
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Some Aspects of Religion

John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...it in a poem of incomparable sadness. After describing the full tide upon the Dover beach, he says: The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 pages
...flow Of human jnisery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a brigty girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 3

1879 - 690 pages
...so much fidelity the infinite sadness that follows the eclipse of faith as Matthew Arnold : The seа of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of n bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to...
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The Melbourne Review, Volume 10, Issues 37-40

1885 - 478 pages
...Was once, too, at the full, around earth's shore — Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night wind down the vast edges drear, And naked shingles of the world." Matthew Arnold has defined...
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The New Englander, Volume 2

1879 - 876 pages
...surprise.' Listen to this:— " The sea of faith ^Vas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay the folds of a bright girdle furl'd; But now I only hear Its melancholy, lowly, withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breadth Of the night-wind down the vast edge drear And uaked...
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