 For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature, and on joys whose earthly names Were never told can form and sense bestow ; And man hath sped his instinct to outgo The step of science ; and against her shames...  Poetical Works of Robert Bridges - Strona 226autor: Robert Bridges - 1898Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Robert Seymour Bridges - 1898 - Liczba stron: 308
...plighted troth 'Twixt heaven and earth, where in one moment blend The hope of one and happiness of both. 8 FOR beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...hath sped his instinct to outgo The step of science j and against her shames Imagination stakes out heavenly claims, Building a tower above the head of... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - Liczba stron: 738
...troth Twixt heaven and earth, that in one moment blend The hope of one and happiness of both. (VIII.) For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...unsearchable and secret aims Of nature, and on joys whose heavenly names Were never told can form and sense bestow. And man hath sped his instinct to outgo Nature... | |
 | Francis Brett Young - 1914 - Liczba stron: 246
...austere ritual. In common with most religions his ecstasy is made a means of escape from life ; for . . . man hath sped his instinct to outgo The step of science...heavenly claims, ^Building a tower above the head of woe. Or again : — Thy smile outfaceth ill, and that old feud Twixt things and me is quash'd in our new... | |
 | Geoffrey Cust Faber - 1915 - Liczba stron: 156
...Browning. And the same idea has been subtly and beautifully clothed by the present poet laureate : ' For Beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...nature, and on joys whose earthly names Were never known can form and sense bestow.' All these observations, it will be said, ignore the importance of... | |
 | Society for Pure English - 1919 - Liczba stron: 716
...the ultimate possibilities of the soul.'4 I shall end with a relevant quotation from a living poet . For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...bestow; And man hath sped his instinct to outgo The steps of science ; and against her shames Imagination stakes out heavenly claims, Building a tower... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1919 - Liczba stron: 376
...Robert Bridges, in "The Growth of Love," begins the eighth sonnet of the series with these lines : Tor beauty being the best of all we know, Sums up the...earthly names Were never told can form and sense bestow. Here beauty is hardly denned, but her work is shown to be the summing-up of internal emotions, and... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - Liczba stron: 624
...am so sweet to you Г be, ROBERT BRIDGES [1844-] FROM THE GROWTH OF LOVE [1876. Enlarged 1889.] VIII FOR beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...Were never told can form and sense bestow; And man has sped his instinct to outgo The step of science ; and against her shames Imagination stakes out... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - Liczba stron: 324
...the ultimate possibilities of the soul." 2 I will end with a relevant quotation from a living poet : For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...heavenly claims, Building a tower above the head of woe.3 1 The Sense of Beauty, p. 180. 2 Poetry and Religion, pp. 269-70. 3 The Poetical Works of Robert... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - Liczba stron: 320
...the ultimate possibilities of the soul." 2 I will end with a relevant quotation from a living poet : For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the...heavenly claims, Building a tower above the head of woe.3 1 The Sense of Beauty, p. 180. 2 Poetry and Religion, pp. 269-70. 3 The Poetical Works of Robert... | |
 | Francis Brett Young - 1926 - Liczba stron: 302
...sonnets, and there he had pitched upon a phrase which held him. He quoted it to me : — " 'For man has sped his instinct to outgo The step of science, and...heavenly claims, Building a tower above the head of woe.' 39 THE DARK TOWER 'Isn't that an excellent figure?' he said. 'The first part of it is a sad heresy,... | |
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