Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 páginas |
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... never be a test of , excellence in works of imagination ; and of teaching , if possible , the duty and the advantages of respect for admitted genius , even when it pursues a path of its own making . Just consider what was the effect of ...
... never be a test of , excellence in works of imagination ; and of teaching , if possible , the duty and the advantages of respect for admitted genius , even when it pursues a path of its own making . Just consider what was the effect of ...
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... never learn their way , or find themselves at home there . Periodical literature can hardly be said to create public taste and opi- nion : I believe it does no more than strongly reflect and thereby concentre and strengthen it . The ...
... never learn their way , or find themselves at home there . Periodical literature can hardly be said to create public taste and opi- nion : I believe it does no more than strongly reflect and thereby concentre and strengthen it . The ...
Página 445
... never be ventured upon in the public journal . We have had evidence enough in our day to the contrary . * Still I aver that such things are not done till nothing but truth and charity is risked in the doing of them ; till the mass of ...
... never be ventured upon in the public journal . We have had evidence enough in our day to the contrary . * Still I aver that such things are not done till nothing but truth and charity is risked in the doing of them ; till the mass of ...
Página 446
... never con- curred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater part of the ...
... never con- curred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater part of the ...
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... never be a genuine poet . Imagery- ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) —affecting incidents , just thoughts , interesting personal or domestic ...
... never be a genuine poet . Imagery- ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) —affecting incidents , just thoughts , interesting personal or domestic ...
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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.