The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of LanguageFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1910 - 294 páginas |
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abstract adjectives altho animals arbitrary symbols Aristotle artistic trope association by similarity become consciousness dance of shadows dark death definition earth Edmond Holmes effect emotions energy experience expression faculties feeling figures of speech fine frenzy fire frenzy give hearer Herbert Spencer HUDSON MAXIM human import iambic iambus imagination imitative Ingersoll insensuous thought Krakatoa language Leigh Hunt lines literatry Max Müller meaning mental metaphor Milton mind mouth-filling nature nerve night onomatopes oral sounds pass from given phrase pitch pleasure poem poet poetic figure poetry potentry premises to right properties of sound prose qualifiers reason rhythm rhythmical rime sense Shakespeare signs of ideas soul sounds symbolize sounds uttered speaker speaking stimulate surprizing syllables things thou thought exprest thunder tion tonal tone-color blends tones tro-potentry trochaic trochee trope tropetry true understanding verse voice words
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Página 196 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Página 151 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Página 163 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveler returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 212 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 88 - The Three stood calm and silent. And looked upon the foes. And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose : And forth three chiefs came spurring Before that deep array; To earth they sprang, their swords they drew, And lifted high their shields, and flew To win the narrow way...
Página 88 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Página 88 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Página 207 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 208 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 88 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...