Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.Matthew Arnold
Nor bring to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give; The ill he cannot cure a name.
Matthew Arnold
Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.
Matthew Arnold
Know, man hath all which nature hath, but more, and in that more lie all his hopes of good
Matthew Arnold
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
Matthew Arnold
Which never was the friend of one,
Nor promised love it could not give,
But lit for all its generous sun,
And lived itself, and made us live.
Matthew Arnold
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