Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... , next of the 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.
... , next of the 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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... language which the heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to ...
... language which the heart holds with nature and itself . He who has a contempt for poetry , cannot have much respect for himself , or for any thing else . It is not a mere frivolous accomplishment , ( as some per- sons have been led to ...
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... language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere delineation of natural feelings , how- ever distinct or forcible ...
... language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere delineation of natural feelings , how- ever distinct or forcible ...
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... desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... language is not the less true to nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object ...
... language is not the less true to nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the impression which the object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object ...
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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.