Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset ! all stands fast. Thou thy self must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.
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Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are the guilty authors of Fenian ism, to found at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.
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It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
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Of these two literature [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort ; the endeavors, in all branches of knowledge—theology, philosophy, history, art, science—to see the object as in itself it really is.
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Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed ‘with his eye on the object’, Dryden fails to render him.Homer invariably composes ‘with his eye on the object’, whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.
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Birth: | 24th December, 1822 |
Death: | 15th April, 1888 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Critic, Poet |
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