 | 1893 - 840 pages
...are surely more applicable to Tennyson's work than to the work of any one of his contemporaries. " The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay." THEODORE WATTS. From The Contemporary Review. THE BANDITTI OF CORSICA. THE vendetta is a thing of the... | |
 | 1880 - 400 pages
...their great rival common-sense. THOMAS H. HUXLEY, in the Nineteenth Century. THE ENGLISH POETS. " Tire future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where...find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a crec-d which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...whether we set ourselves, as here, to follow only one of the several streams that make the might/ " THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,...its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will fin" an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a crefid which is DO! shaken, not an accredited dogma... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 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... | |
 | 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...surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, aot an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dotjma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
