English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 - 610 páginas |
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... Painting , and , accordingly , we call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connexion sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They both speak by and to the same organs ; the bodies ...
... Painting , and , accordingly , we call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connexion sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They both speak by and to the same organs ; the bodies ...
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... Painter has consequently varied the heads and forms of his personages into all Nature's varieties ; the horses he has also varied to accord to their riders ; the costume is correct according to authentic monuments . The Knight and ...
... Painter has consequently varied the heads and forms of his personages into all Nature's varieties ; the horses he has also varied to accord to their riders ; the costume is correct according to authentic monuments . The Knight and ...
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... Painter has also grouped with these the Pardoner and the Sompnour and the Manciple , and has here also introduced one of the rich citizens of London -characters likely to ride in company , all being above the common rank in life , or ...
... Painter has also grouped with these the Pardoner and the Sompnour and the Manciple , and has here also introduced one of the rich citizens of London -characters likely to ride in company , all being above the common rank in life , or ...
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... Painter has put them side by side , as if the youthful clerk had put himself under the tuition of the mature poet . Let the Philosopher always be the servant and scholar of Inspiration , and all will be happy . 95 CHARLES LAMB 1775-1834 ...
... Painter has put them side by side , as if the youthful clerk had put himself under the tuition of the mature poet . Let the Philosopher always be the servant and scholar of Inspiration , and all will be happy . 95 CHARLES LAMB 1775-1834 ...
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... paint fair Nature , by divine command , Her magic pencil in his glowing hand , A Shakespeare rose : then , to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world , a Garrick came . Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew , The Actor's ...
... paint fair Nature , by divine command , Her magic pencil in his glowing hand , A Shakespeare rose : then , to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world , a Garrick came . Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew , The Actor's ...
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Página 332 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 337 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 122 - Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
Página 65 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 332 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Página 130 - Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man in ^the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. A poet therefore would do ill to embody his own conceptions of right and wrong, which are usually those of his place and time, in his poetical creations, which participate in neither.
Página 110 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Página 487 - To their fathers and mothers having risen Out of some subterraneous prison Into which they were trepanned Long time ago in a mighty band Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, But how or why, they don't understand.
Página 47 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 130 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which 30 exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.