Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 páginas |
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... truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common por- trait , as the poet to describe the most ...
... truth or abstract reason . The painter of history might as well be required to represent the face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expression of a common por- trait , as the poet to describe the most ...
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... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe ...
... truth of fiction ! What deep feeling in the description of Christian's swimming across the water at last , and in the picture of the Shining Ones within the gates , with wings at their backs and garlands on their heads , who are to wipe ...
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... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it ...
... truth and feeling in Richardson ; but it is extracted from a caput mortuum of circumstances : it does not evaporate of itself . His poetical genius is like Ariel confined in a pine - tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it ...
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... truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract ...
... truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that of imagination and of faith : it is abstract ...
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... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to shew ...
... truth . He exhibits for the most part the naked object , with little drapery thrown over it . His metaphors , which are few , are not for ornament , but use , and as like as possible to the things themselves . He does not affect to shew ...
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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...