| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, 'that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of Clough's time, this lofty estimate may well be... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, 'that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of Clough's time, this lofty estimate may well be... | |
| Samuel Waddington - 1883 - 358 pages
...improbable that hereafter these two Oxford poets will still be associated together as having given ' the truest expression in verse of the moral and intellectual...towards settled convictions of the period in which they lived.' Mr. RH Hutton has already, in his Theological and Literary Essays (page 256, vol. ii.),... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...year.] ' We have a foreboding,' says Mr. Lowell in one of his essays, 'that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' If doubt and struggle were the ruling tendencies of dough's time, this lofty estimate may well be true... | |
| 1891 - 750 pages
...Their views of life were sorrowful and desponding. Lowell regretfully said of his friend Clough : " He will be thought, a hundred years hence, to have been...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived." In happy contrast with these despairing brothers of song, we turn to Lowell, whose genius was nurtured... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 pages
...imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued his sensitive temperament to the requirements of his art, will be thought a hundred...settled convictions of the period in which he lived.' His works are : 1. ' The Bothie of Toperna-Fuosich (afterwards Tober-na-Vuolich), a Long Vacation Pastoral,'... | |
| 1889 - 846 pages
...temperament to the sterner requirements of his art, will be thought a hundred years hence to have Ijeen the truest expres-sion in verse of the moral and intellectual...dead in the English language, almost worthy indeed to l)e compared with the Lyciriat of Milton, the Adonais of Shelley, and the In Metnoriam of Tennyson.... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 444 pages
...versifiers, as the style of a great poet never can be ; and I have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase is to be a poet, no doubt; but to... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 420 pages
...versifiers, as the style of a great poet never can be ; and I have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase is to be a poet, no doubt ; but to... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 418 pages
...versifiers, as the style of a great poet never can be; and I have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before he had subdued...settled convictions, of the period in which he lived. To make beautiful conceptions immortal by exquisiteness of phrase is to be a poet, no doubt; but to... | |
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