 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1903 - 624 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Vi\ti YeS; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the ^7 really excellent, and of the... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...poetical collection such us the present. And yet in the very nature and- conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. of the history and development of a poetry may incline a man to pause over reputations and works once... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 610 pages
...collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure in us the consciousness of what our ber.efit should be, and to distract us from the pursuit of...thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and condnct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...should therefore steadily set it before our minds b2 at the outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...should be, and to distract us from the pursuit of it. VVe should therefore steadily set it before our minds ba at the outset, and should compel ourselves... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collec-" tion there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...what our benefit should be, and to distract us from 1he pursuit of it. We should therefore steadily set it before our minds at the outset, and should compel... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 632 pages
...poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct of such a collection there is inevitably something which tends to obscure...should therefore steadily set it before our minds b2 at the outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed.... | |
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... as nothing else can. A clearer, deeper sense of the best in poetry, and of the strength and joy to be drawn from it, is the most precious benefit which we can gather from a poetical collection such as the present. And yet in the very nature and conduct... 
