Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- homme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when ...
... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Molière's Bourgeois Gentil- homme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet , in fact , when ...
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... poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without ...
... poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagina- tion and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape things according to our wishes and fancies , without ...
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... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experi- mental philosophy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experi- mental philosophy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
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... poetical than painting . When artists or connoisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they show that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
... poetical than painting . When artists or connoisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they show that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
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... poetical imagination , as a jolting road or a stumbling horse disturbs the reverie of an absent man . But poetry makes these odds all even . It is the music of language , answering to the music of the mind , untying , as it were , " the ...
... poetical imagination , as a jolting road or a stumbling horse disturbs the reverie of an absent man . But poetry makes these odds all even . It is the music of language , answering to the music of the mind , untying , as it were , " the ...
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