...tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, beneath the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Straggling in vain with ruthless destiny." " Though," said the priest in answer," these be terms Which...

...highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, Th' internal pangs, are ready ; the dread strife Of poor...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." 4 The three myths here so appositely referred to are much too long, in their several particulars, for...

...tragic muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, beneath the shadowy hills, Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire I* terms Which a divine philosophy rejects, We, whose establish'd and unfailing trust Is in controlling...

...our doom was sealed. In them " The generations were prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs, were ready, the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." In their first false step we trace " all our future woe, with loss of Eden." But there was a short...

...But there are some solitudes that cannot be evaded : — "Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will," — — and then we leave the greatest poets of the great world, and look to one who was ever glad...

...tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling HI vam with ruthless destiny." " Though," said the Priest in answer, " these be terms Which a divine...

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...find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, the generations arc prepared ; the pangs, the internal pangs, are ready...afflicted will struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. — (BooK VI.) Contrast these well-known and beautiful passages with the following, and it would be...

...highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, Th' internal pangs, are ready ; the dread strife Of poor...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." 4 The three myths here sO appositely referred to are much too long, in their sev. eral particulars,...

...tragic Muse Shall find apt subjeets for her highest art. Amid the groves, beneath the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...pangs, are ready ; the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflieted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." " Though," said the Priest in answer, " those...