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Article: "Unhackneyed thoughts and winged words": Arnold, Locke, and the similes of Sohrab and Rustum.(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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But hardly have we, for one little hour,
Been on our own line, have we been ourselves--
Hardly had skill to utter one of all
The nameless feelings that course through our breast,
But they course on for ever unexpressed.
--Arnold, "The Buried Life"
How needful it is for those who are to discuss any matter together, to have a common understanding to the sense of the terms they employ,--how needful and how difficult.