Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... describe what all the others think and act . If his art is folly and madness , it is folly and mad- ness at second hand . There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping fantasies , that apprehend ...
... describe what all the others think and act . If his art is folly and madness , it is folly and mad- ness at second hand . There is warrant for it . " Poets alone have not " such seething brains , such shaping fantasies , that apprehend ...
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... describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of sense , or analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or ...
... describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of sense , or analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or ...
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... to the agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... to the agonising sense of his wrongs and his despair ! Poetry is the high - wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling . As in describing natural ob- jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of 8 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature . Tragic poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the ...
... describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature . Tragic poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the ...
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... sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conversation . Let who will 16 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the language of common conversation . Let who will 16 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.