Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Том 2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 страници |
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... characters supernatural , or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a ... character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained dic- tion , which is characteristic of his genius . In this ...
... characters supernatural , or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a ... character , in the impassioned , lofty , and sustained dic- tion , which is characteristic of his genius . In this ...
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... character of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be baffled by the perversion of the proper ultimate end ; in which no charm of diction or ...
... character of the author , not the class to which the work belongs . Blest indeed is that state of society , in which the immediate purpose would be baffled by the perversion of the proper ultimate end ; in which no charm of diction or ...
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... character of a poem , we have still to seek for a definition of poetry . The writ- ings of Plato , and Jeremy Taylor , and Burnet's Theory of the Earth , ' furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without ...
... character of a poem , we have still to seek for a definition of poetry . The writ- ings of Plato , and Jeremy Taylor , and Burnet's Theory of the Earth , ' furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without ...
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... characters themselves , not only of every outward look and act , but the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings , were placing the whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions ...
... characters themselves , not only of every outward look and act , but the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings , were placing the whole before our view ; himself meanwhile unparticipating in the passions ...
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... characters themselves , and the whole representations of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told 4 [ " Consider how he paints , " says Mr. Carlyle , " he has a great power of vision ; seizes the very type of ...
... characters themselves , and the whole representations of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told 4 [ " Consider how he paints , " says Mr. Carlyle , " he has a great power of vision ; seizes the very type of ...
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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.