Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionTaylor and Hessey, 1818 - 331 páginas |
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... Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato ba- nished the poets ... Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the ...
... Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato ba- nished the poets ... Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the ...
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... Homer , the principle of action or life is pre- dominant ; in the Bible , the principle of faith and the idea of ... Homer's poetry is the heroic : it is full of life and action : it is bright as the day , strong as a river . In the ...
... Homer , the principle of action or life is pre- dominant ; in the Bible , the principle of faith and the idea of ... Homer's poetry is the heroic : it is full of life and action : it is bright as the day , strong as a river . In the ...
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... Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that ...
... Homer is wonderful ; their splendour , their truth , their force , and variety . His poetry is , like his religion , the poetry of number and form : he describes the bodies as well as the souls of men . The poetry of the Bible is that ...
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... in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than D 1 any thing in Homer , as that of the state ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 33.
... in the human race was involved in her breast . There are descriptions in the book of Job more prodigal of imagery , more intense in passion , than D 1 any thing in Homer , as that of the state ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 33.
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... Homer . His genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry , he bears no comparison to many who ...
... Homer . His genius is not a sparkling flame , but the sullen heat of a furnace . He is power , passion , self - will personified . In all that relates to the descriptive or fanciful part of poetry , he bears no comparison to many who ...
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Página 145 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 321 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 71 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 113 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 271 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the keystane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the keystane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake; For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tarn wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Página 21 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 273 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Página 117 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 243 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Página 199 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.