 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 Andover Review - Page 1051891Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 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 - Congregational churches - 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... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...uses, and 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...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 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 to...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...VOL. L 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...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...uses, and 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...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with 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... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1883 - 638 pages
...men h*ve assigned to it hitherto. More and more m mkind will discover that we have to turn to p >etry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1884 - 502 pages
...hire assigned to it hitherto. More and in >re in mkinJ will discover that we have to turn to p letry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | 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... | |
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