severity quotes

  • Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics thanthese wordsnoble, thegrand style† Ithink it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

    - Matthew Arnold
      On Translating Homer; Last Words.

  • Summer has set in with its usual severity.

    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      Letter to Vincent Novello, 9 May.

  • I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

    -Tennyson
      Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.640^3.

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