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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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Through Glade and Mead: A Contribution to Local Natural History

Joseph Jackson - 1894 - 390 pages
...on the French coast, and to his mind has come a picture of the Sea of Faith once at the full but now "Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind, down...vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." While he can say his special thanks are due to Sophocles "Whose even-balanced soul, From first youth...
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Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious ..., Volume 26

Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1894 - 906 pages
...tin' great human sea of history, wrote such words as these : "The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at its 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, Ketreating, to the breath Of the...
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A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: Selections Illustrating the ..., Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find abo in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- winds, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To...
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The Greater Victorian Poets

Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...unwelcome intellectual necessity. He has himself expressed its character in words of surpassing beauty:— The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shmgles of the world (Dover Beach). It ought to be...
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The Greater Victorian Poets

Hugh Walker - 1895 - 352 pages
...unwelcome intellectual necessity. He has himself expressed its character in words of surpassing beauty:— The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round...only he'ar Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Eetreating, to the breath Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world...
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The Bookman, Volume 61

1925 - 914 pages
...destroyed, of a challenging of convention, there can be for them a slabUity in the midst of their chaos. 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 night...
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A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: Selections Illustrating the Editor's ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 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...earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle f url'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the...
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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 540 pages
...flow Of human misery ; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea. r The Sea. of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdleJurFd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing_roar, Retreating, to the breath...
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Victor Hugo's Letters to His Wife and Others (The Alps and the Pyrenees)

Victor Hugo - 1895 - 328 pages
...perfect symbol ? 1 It seemed to me that from the interior of that 1 Compare Matthew Arnold's Hues " The Sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round Earth's shore Lay like the folda of a bright girdle furl'd ; But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, mysterious...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 3

1896 - 532 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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