 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced...  The Canadian Magazine - Page 313edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 pages
...in Mr. Arnold's opinion, is in future to be a substitute for religion. " More and more," lie says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1885 - 972 pages
...wise utterances) that " the strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." When that... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...I. • b called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...truly does Wordsworth call poetry ' the impassioned ex- I pression which is in the countenance of all science ; ' and ; what is a countenance without its... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 610 pages
...VOL. I. b called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more, mankind will discover that we have...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes \\ith us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1886 - 312 pages
...it luis hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and moro mankind will discover that wo have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well doc:) Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1891 - 750 pages
...the idea is everything. . . . Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea, the idea is the fact. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." — MATTHEW ARNOLD. " NOT a creed unshaken,"... | |
 | 1884 - 500 pages
...other extreme of life. " Hallam, indeed, does not place poetry as high as Mr. Matthew Arnold : — " More and more mankind will discover that we have to...turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...tells us to conceive of poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and more mankind will discover that we have to...turn to poetry to interpret life for us. to console and sustain us. Scic-nce will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 394 pages
...poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive it. " More and more," he says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1899 - 796 pages
...explanation of criticism and to the further elucidation of the thought which is contained in the phrases " We turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us ; " but he reflects that he would be a rash critic who should try to judge any piece of music in that... | |
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