 Mid struggling sufferers, hurt to death, she lay! Shuddering, they drew her garments off — and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse! young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside; a hidden ground Of thought...  New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 6521896Full view - About this book
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...off—and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. "Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within."—Page 113. Now we feel that Swinburne's Muse does not wear a robe of sackcloth. One poet... | |
 | Robert Mackintosh - 1889 - 504 pages
...What Arnold said of poetry may be said of moral obedience : — ' Such poets is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. ' Any beauty of character, or any religious joy, which does not grow out of the conscientious performance... | |
 | 1892 - 728 pages
...and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. * Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within.' We now come to Dante. His baptismal name appears to have been Durante, but the shorter form was the... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - Art - 1895 - 558 pages
...it seemed to lie in those lines he had read in a volume of Matthew Arnold, borrowed from Herbert: " Young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." A sudden fear that he was not a genius himself was like a vivisector's knife through his heart, laying... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - Artists - 1895 - 498 pages
...lie in those lines he had read in a volume of Matthew Arnold borrowed from Herbert : . "Young, py, Radiant, adorned, outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." A sudden fear that he was not a genius himself was like a viviscctor's knife through his heart, laying... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 546 pages
...— and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD. WHAT made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell ? — 'Twas not the thought of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...on truth and value of substance. In one of his sonnets he says that the poet's muse should be — " Young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." In his poems Arnold endeavored to keep his practice in line with his principles. By a careful and constant... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1903 - 758 pages
...treatise in verse or a rhymed enigma. His mnse, indeed, is the muse of Matthew Arnold's sonnet : " Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." The question of the fatalist has been asked in many forms, but nowhere more tersely or suggestively... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...on truth and value of substance. In one of his sonnets he says that the poet's muse should be — " Young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." • 473. Rank as a Poet. — We cannot assign him a very high rank as a poet — considerably lower,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...on truth and value of substance. In one of his sonnets he says that the poet's muse should be — " Young, gay, Radiant, adorned outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within." 473. Rank as a Poet. — We cannot assign him a very high rank as a poet — considerably lower, indeed,... | |
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