Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Том 2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 страници |
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... English Poets in general , could 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 ...
... English Poets in general , could 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 ...
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... English by order of King Charles , and was in a sixth edit . in 1726. The author , a native of Scotland , and Master of Sutton's Hospital , London , wrote also De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgen- tium , and several other books , died Sep ...
... English by order of King Charles , and was in a sixth edit . in 1726. The author , a native of Scotland , and Master of Sutton's Hospital , London , wrote also De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgen- tium , and several other books , died Sep ...
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... service to the cause of English literature . Ed . ] 10 [ Aristoph . , Ranæ , v . , 96-7 . Mr. Frere , in the tone of the Bacchus of the play , translates thus : With this , he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of 458 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA .
... service to the cause of English literature . Ed . ] 10 [ Aristoph . , Ranæ , v . , 96-7 . Mr. Frere , in the tone of the Bacchus of the play , translates thus : With this , he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of 458 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA .
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... English poet has greatly the advantage in thought and still more in expression . Philo- sophy in the song of Milton is better harmonized with poetry than in that of Dante ; it is fused into the poetic mass by something accompanying it ...
... English poet has greatly the advantage in thought and still more in expression . Philo- sophy in the song of Milton is better harmonized with poetry than in that of Dante ; it is fused into the poetic mass by something accompanying it ...
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... English is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , and the like , is commonly as trivial in thought , and yet enigmatic in expression , as if Echo and Sphinx had laid their heads ...
... English is far from being general ; and that the composition of our novels , magazines , public harangues , and the like , is commonly as trivial in thought , and yet enigmatic in expression , as if Echo and Sphinx had laid their heads ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 498 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Страница 459 - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.