Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 страници |
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... period , or a country , in which a poet could live by the fruits of his labours . This circumstance ( in no respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it ...
... period , or a country , in which a poet could live by the fruits of his labours . This circumstance ( in no respect dishonourable to the art ) has been a snare by which multitudes of its professors have been tempted to dishonour both it ...
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... periods , is as fabulous as the mythology of the gods , which usually precedes the traditions of the men that first made and then worshipped them . Poetry , in one sense , builds up the ruins of his- tory , fallen otherwise into ...
... periods , is as fabulous as the mythology of the gods , which usually precedes the traditions of the men that first made and then worshipped them . Poetry , in one sense , builds up the ruins of his- tory , fallen otherwise into ...
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... periods , before the fashions of those strange times were passed away . Poetry is thus the illuminator of history , the paths of which , in early times , would have been dark indeed , without this " light from heaven . " In regard to ...
... periods , before the fashions of those strange times were passed away . Poetry is thus the illuminator of history , the paths of which , in early times , would have been dark indeed , without this " light from heaven . " In regard to ...
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... periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished declaimer , can reach the enchantment of the numbers of true poetry , which a person of fine nerve and pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he ...
... periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished declaimer , can reach the enchantment of the numbers of true poetry , which a person of fine nerve and pure taste can conceive in the silence of thought , while he ...
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... period , the manly English , I had almost said his own English En- glish , so purely , so radically vernacular it is , which distinguishes the style of Dryden ; I dwell not on these , though , in all the writings of this great master ...
... period , the manly English , I had almost said his own English En- glish , so purely , so radically vernacular it is , which distinguishes the style of Dryden ; I dwell not on these , though , in all the writings of this great master ...
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Страница 101 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Страница 101 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
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Страница 126 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Страница 51 - LEAR. Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.