Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 páginas |
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... metre , or by rhyme , or by both conjointly . In this , the lowest sense , a man might attribute the name of a poem to the well known enumeration of the days in the several months ; Thirty days hath September , April , June , and ...
... metre , or by rhyme , or by both conjointly . In this , the lowest sense , a man might attribute the name of a poem to the well known enumeration of the days in the several months ; Thirty days hath September , April , June , and ...
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... metre , with or without rhyme , entitle these to the name of poems ? The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all ...
... metre , with or without rhyme , entitle these to the name of poems ? The answer is , that nothing can permanently please , which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all ...
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... metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem . The first chapter of Isaiah- ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) —is poetry in the most em- phatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than ...
... metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem . The first chapter of Isaiah- ( indeed a very large proportion of the whole book ) —is poetry in the most em- phatic sense ; yet it would be not less irrational than ...
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... metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively care- less . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical movement is ...
... metre , on the other hand , he is comparatively care- less . The measure is either constructed on no previous system , and acknowledges no justifying principle but that of the writer's convenience ; or else some mechanical movement is ...
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... metre : — A warrior so bold and a virgin so bright Conversed as they sat on the green ; They gazed on each other with tender delight ; Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight , The maid's was the fair Imogene . Mr. Southey adopted ...
... metre : — A warrior so bold and a virgin so bright Conversed as they sat on the green ; They gazed on each other with tender delight ; Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight , The maid's was the fair Imogene . Mr. Southey adopted ...
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Página 588 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Página 587 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Página 553 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning ; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark ! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver...
Página 504 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Página 457 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Página 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Página 443 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Página 588 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither ; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.