Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Том 2W. Pickering, 1847 - 804 страници |
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... reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an exact correspondent ...
... reason why it is so , and not otherwise . If metre be super- added , all other parts must be made consonant with it . They must be such , as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part , which an exact correspondent ...
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... reason than that it would be intolerable in conversation or in prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the style of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over ...
... reason than that it would be intolerable in conversation or in prose . Though alas ! even our prose writings , nay even the style of our more set discourses , strive to be in the fashion , and trick themselves out in the soiled and over ...
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... reasons , and converted into mere arti- fices of connexion or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process by ...
... reasons , and converted into mere arti- fices of connexion or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the poetic style of the moderns ; and as far as he has , with equal acuteness and clearness , pointed out the process by ...
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... reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more must I hesitate in my assent to the sentence which ...
... reason , but both from the few instances in which the poet himself need be supposed to have been governed by it , and from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more must I hesitate in my assent to the sentence which ...
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... reason for their being written metrically ? And , thus continuing , she said , " I had a Son , who many a day Sailed on the seas ; but he is dead ; In Denmark he was cast away ; 9 [ Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy . 271 , 312 ...
... reason for their being written metrically ? And , thus continuing , she said , " I had a Son , who many a day Sailed on the seas ; but he is dead ; In Denmark he was cast away ; 9 [ Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy . 271 , 312 ...
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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.