Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 páginas |
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... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry act upon them all our lives , like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when he ...
... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry act upon them all our lives , like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when he ...
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... poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagination and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things aç- cording to our wishes and fancies , without ...
... poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagination and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things aç- cording to our wishes and fancies , without ...
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... poetical im- pression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impa- tient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other ...
... poetical im- pression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impa- tient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other ...
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... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the pro- gress of experimental philosophy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the pro- gress of experimental philosophy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
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... poetical than painting . When artists or con- noisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they show that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
... poetical than painting . When artists or con- noisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they show that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
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Página 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Página 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...