 Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thoughts of it. No ; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still,...  Modern painters - Page 212by John Ruskin - 1894Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...Lacedremon, in toe dear fatherland." Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not...13. Take another very notable instance from Casimir de la Vigne's terrible ballad, " La Toilette de Constance." I must quote a few lines out of it here... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...Laced&mon, in the dear fatherland." Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not...13. Take another very notable instance from Casimir de la Vigne's terrible ballad, " La Toilette de Constance." I must quote a few lines out of it here... | |
 | 1912 - 912 pages
...land.' And he quotes for dispraise, Mr. Ruskin's comment: — ' " The poet," says Mr. Ruskin, " has to speak of the earth in sadness; but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thought of it. No; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still — fruitful,... | |
 | 1856 - 368 pages
...already the life-creating earth possessed, there in Lacedaemon—iu their dear fatherland The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not...Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still—fruitful, life-giving. These are the facts of the thing—I see nothing else than these. Make... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...Laeedsemon, in the dear fatherland." Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not let the sadness affect or change his thoughts of it. No ; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...Lacedaemon, in the dear fatherland." Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but he will not let the sadness affect or change his thoughts of it. No ; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...has to speak of the earth in sadness ; but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thought of it. No ; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet...earth is our mother still — fruitful, life-giving."* For spirited description, few, if any, passages in ihe Iliad can compare with the noble lines in bv,... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...gather vhat he can from it. Note here the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness; but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thought o:' it. No ; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still — fruitful,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pages
...gather what he can from it. Note here the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness: but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thought of it. No; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still—fruitful,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1861 - 132 pages
...ij>vai£ooc ain iv AaKeSai fiovi avQi, ij>i\ri iv irarpiSi ya/ij. " The poet," says Mr. Euskin, " has to speak of the earth in sadness ; but he will not let that sadness affect or change his thought of it. No; though Castor and Pollux be dead, yet the earth is our mother still, — fruitful,... | |
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