Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 страници |
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... charm of diversity within the flowing round of habit and ease . Poetry is imaginative passion . The quickest and subtlest test of the possession of its essence is in expression ; the variety of things to be expressed shows the amount of ...
... charm of diversity within the flowing round of habit and ease . Poetry is imaginative passion . The quickest and subtlest test of the possession of its essence is in expression ; the variety of things to be expressed shows the amount of ...
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... charms , Triumphs o'er reason : in her look she bears A paradise of ever - blooming sweets ; Fair as the first idea beauty prints In her young lover's soul ; a winning grace Guides every gesture , and obsequious love Attends on all her ...
... charms , Triumphs o'er reason : in her look she bears A paradise of ever - blooming sweets ; Fair as the first idea beauty prints In her young lover's soul ; a winning grace Guides every gesture , and obsequious love Attends on all her ...
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... charm with the poetical . He is not so great a poet as Shakspeare or Dante ; he has less imagination , though more fancy , than Mil- ton . He does not see things so purely in their elements as Dante ; neither can he combine their ...
... charm with the poetical . He is not so great a poet as Shakspeare or Dante ; he has less imagination , though more fancy , than Mil- ton . He does not see things so purely in their elements as Dante ; neither can he combine their ...
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... d in deadly sleep he finds , He to his study goes , and their amids ' His magic books and arts of sundry kinds , He seeks out mighty charms to trouble sleepy minds . Then choosing out few words most horrible ( Let none 54 SPENSER .
... d in deadly sleep he finds , He to his study goes , and their amids ' His magic books and arts of sundry kinds , He seeks out mighty charms to trouble sleepy minds . Then choosing out few words most horrible ( Let none 54 SPENSER .
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... charm join'd to their suffer'd labor , I have left asleep ; and for the rest o ' the fleet , Which I dispers'd , they all have met again ; And are upon the Mediterranean flote , Bound sadly home for Naples ; Supposing that they saw the ...
... charm join'd to their suffer'd labor , I have left asleep ; and for the rest o ' the fleet , Which I dispers'd , they all have met again ; And are upon the Mediterranean flote , Bound sadly home for Naples ; Supposing that they saw the ...
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