 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 - Página 167por John Ruskin - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 páginas
...possessed, there in Laced&mon, in the dear fatherland." Note, here, the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth...nothing else than these. Make what you will of them. § 13. Take another very notable instance from Casimir de la Vigne's terrible ballad, " La Toilette... | |
 | 1912 - 912 páginas
...native 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 páginas
...But them already the life-creating earth possessed, there in Lacedaemon—iu their dear fatherland The poet has to speak of the earth in sadness, but...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 - 496 páginas
...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 ;...nothing else than these. Make what you will of them. Take another very notable instance from Casimirdela Vigne'8 terrible ballad, " La Toilette de Constance."... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 páginas
...possessed, therein Lacedsemon, 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 - 504 páginas
...possessed, there in 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... | |
 | 1860 - 534 páginas
...fact, and leave the hearer to gatner what he can from it. Note here the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth...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,... | |
 | 1860 - 528 páginas
...fact, and leave the hearer to gather vhat he can from it. Note here the high poetical truth carried to the extreme. The poet has to speak of the earth...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 páginas
...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, life-giving."* For spirited description, few, if any, passages in the Iliad can compare... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1861 - 132 páginas
...Kare^ev 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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