The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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