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welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
EdgardLemaire: "Dear Anne,—I received your kind letter by the barque ‘Melantho,’ after an extremely long voyage. Charles received one on the same day from uncle Charles, intimating that we were to spend our vacation at Easter with him..."
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cjbalchin: Good questions. But they/we haven't gone.
"And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright."
"Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth" by Arthur Hugh Clough
Opissroo9068: The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.,Arthur Hugh Clough,Service, Political, Liberty ,
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
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poetrycandle: Ten Poems of Hope - for the new year! Poems by Fleur Adcock, Sujata Bhatt, Arthur Hugh Clough, Katie Dunstan, Kerry Hardie, Winifred Holtby, Roy Marshall, Paula Meehan, Roger Robinson, Laura Theis and Walt Whitman.
Cover illustration by Sarah Kirby.
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
Charismatic_Oba: Today, let’s take a few shot of comfort from poetry -
These are stanzas from Arthur Hugh Clough's poem…
'Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth'
…to nurture our trying spirit to motivate
……………
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain,
LuckyErica3: Say not the struggle naught availeth BY Arthur Hugh Clough.
Say not the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
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shelleyscholar: Arthur Hugh Clough to Charles Eliot Norton: 'Pray read Hogg’s ‘Life of Shelley.’ It is a great pleasure to see Shelley really alive, and treading the vulgar earth—Hogg’s transparent absurdity being the only intervening impediment'. The year Hogg's two volumes were published.
NathanFrancis__: And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
Poems:
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
bryankam: He cites Arthur Hugh Clough:
"IT fortifies my soul to know
That though I perish, Truth is so;"
hakumamatata_6: No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough
HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY KICE
Nilsy227: Through a Glass Darkly
- Arthur Hugh Clough
MarshaWietecha: The word today is Buzz. “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t Buzz any slower.” Kin Hubbard. “The highest political Buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.” Arthur Hugh Clough.
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
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TweetPulpit: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Say not, The struggle nought availeth,
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
alok_sheel: Say not the Struggle nought Availeth
BY ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
Say not the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain.
rcctpms: Another of his fave recitations:
It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so:
That howsoe'er I stray and range,
Whate'er I do, That dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall That if I slip, Thou dost not fall. ~Arthur Hugh Clough
TweetPulpit: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Say not, The struggle nought availeth,
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
TweetPulpit: And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’ (1855)
Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
639hz__: “But play no tricks upon
thy soul, 0 man;
let fact be fact, and life
the thing it can.”
— Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
HabitualMoney: "So pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! So pleasant it is to have money." ~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Rdg1tw: Reading Antony Kenny's book on Arthur Hugh Clough and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Can philosophers write good books about poets.
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
plastic_bio: A world where nothing is had for nothing.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
drgregorytate: My article on Arthur Hugh Clough's adjectives, "Superlative Clough", has just been published in Essays in Criticism. It's the first publication from my project on grammatical prescriptivism and style in Victorian literature.
floycdunaway: ↪️
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✣❀The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, Victor Davis Hanson
Katherine_Ebury: Arguing with someone about work, life and strikes yesterday, I said out of nowhere ‘say not the struggle nought availeth’ - and while I did not win the argument (they were like, what?) here is the whole Arthur Hugh Clough for anyone who needs it.
brownfulk: Say not the Struggle nought Availeth - Arthur Hugh Clough poem reading |...
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
rk70534: ANSWER TO ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH(1819-1861)
MelanieJaxn: December days were brief and chill,
The winds of March were wild and drear,
And, nearing and receding still,
Spring never would, we thought, be here.
~Arthur Hugh Clough
MelanieJaxn: December days were brief and chill,
The winds of March were wild and drear,
And, nearing and receding still,
Spring never would, we thought, be here.
~Arthur Hugh Clough
SillimanT: December days were brief and chill,
The winds of March were wild and drear,
And, nearing and receding still,
Spring never would, we thought, be here.
~Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
vgr: TIL Asimov’s laws had some inspiration from this satirical 10 commandments.
The Latest Decalogue -
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
PolProfSteve: Arthur Hugh Clough was very perceptive.
BookRarities: Plutarch Lives Vol I-IV by Arthur Hugh Clough Folio Society
RevRichardColes: It is the bicentenary of the birth of Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, radical, unpaid assistant to Florence Nightingale, who witnessed the 1848 revolution in Paris, and wrote this after the defeat of Chartism that same year.
AijazaliNizama2: Arthur Hugh Clough
ONE WOMAN ARMY TEJASSWI
simonhfielding: Re Boris, Rees - Mogg Et Al I'm swept back to Seven Victorian Poets i did for A level... Arthur Hugh Clough...
I ride and I drive and I care not a damn
The people look up and they ask who I am
And if i should chance to run over a cad
I can pay for the damage if so bad
AijazaliNizama2: Arthur Hugh Clough
TEJASSWI DESERVES TO WIN
imlcc: “And not by Eastern windows only
When daylight comes, comes in the light.
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But Westward look! The land is bright.”
by Arthur Hugh Clough, from “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth”
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
PabloBezus: "In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright"
Arthur Hugh Clough
intermittentcat: Not to be all circumgender about it but i feel like even though arthur hugh clough was a cis man, he was also somehow 100% a closeted trans guy
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English poet Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819), author of the poem "Through a Glass Darkly" et al.
TheTShepherd: Today's Author Birthdays:
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819; d.1861)
Sir James [George] Frazer (1854; d.1941
Mariano Azuela (1873; d.1952)
E[dward] M[organ] Forster (1879; d.1970)
J[erome] D[avid] Salinger (1919;d.2010)
Sembene Ousmane (1923; d.2007)
Jean Ure (1943)
GZarella: Good morning. "The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service." ~ Arthur Hugh Clough 1/1/1819 English Poet
Sepook: “And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.”
—ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
plastic_bio: A world where nothing is had for nothing.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
emcmpearson: and then by editing and creating an online, scholarly edition of Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage (also alongside my classmates) for COVE. (2/5)
jwmpulpit: Say not, 'The struggle nought availeth;
The labour and the wounds are vain:
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.'
Arthur Hugh Clough
stevewh16944270: Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The Last Decalogue' by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
shapebookstore: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough -
Chris_A_W: "Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive, officiously to keep alive" - Arthur Hugh Clough
LRB: ‘Part of what unnerved Clough’s contemporaries – in his verse as well as in life – was his talent for scissoring through the evasions and impostures of Victorian morality.’
Fergus McGhee on Arthur Hugh Clough:
LRB: ‘Throughout the poems you can sense the secret glee of the pious schoolboy who once confessed in his diary: “Feel almost inclined to sin because it seems monotonous to be good all day.”’
Fergus McGhee on Arthur Hugh Clough:
JMWSPT: And almost everyone when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.
-Arthur Hugh Clough
s_j_cross: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough, 1862
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
AndrewTRoycroft: Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive.
-Arthur Hugh Clough in 'The Latest Decalogue'
PeterSStrempel: CLASS ACTION FOR MURDER AS POLICY?
In the mid-19th century, poet and wit Arthur Hugh Clough observed Christian hypocrisy by writing 'thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive'.
Clough was better known as Florence Nightingale's long-time assistant.
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welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
smartsitesh: There are two different kinds, I believe, of human attraction: One which simply disturbs, unsettles, and makes you uneasy, And another that poises, retains, and fixes and holds you.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
Akifkhan100: "I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul!"
Arthur Hugh Clough
markjonesjr: "Say Not the Struggle" by Arthur Hugh Clough
madihajsiddiqui: “There are two different kinds, I believe, of human attraction: One which simply disturbs, unsettles, and makes you uneasy, And another that poises, retains, and fixes and holds you.”
- Arthur Hugh Clough
JessicaHignell: Friday Poetry: Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. Arthur Hugh Clough
welfordwrites: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat when it’s so lucrative to cheat. Arthur Hugh Clough
EmyrLewis4: Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive
(o ‘The Latest Decalogue’ gan Arthur Hugh Clough 1819-1861)
Plus ca change.
cchazmo222: " Grace is given of God...but knowledge is bought in the market." - Arthur Hugh Clough
amitlah76841316: Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market. Arthur Hugh Clough.
IdeesMontaigne: The Latest Decalogue, by Arthur Hugh Clough; & The New Decalogue, by Ambrose Bierce,
shapebookstore: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough -
