Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions THE A C LECTURE INTRODUCTORY -ON POETRY IN GENERAL.
... forms of expres- sion to which it gives birth , and afterwards of its connection with harmony of sound . B Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions THE A C LECTURE INTRODUCTORY -ON POETRY IN GENERAL.
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... forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a ...
... forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination . " If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a ...
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... forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of ...
... forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not define the limits of ...
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... 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 .
... 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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William Hazlitt. jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature ...
William Hazlitt. jects , it impregnates sensible impressions with the forms of fancy , so it describes the feelings of pleasure or pain , by blending them with the strongest movements of passion , and the most striking forms of nature ...
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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.