Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagination and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape ...
... never existed but in the brain of the inventor ; and Homer's poetical world has outlived Plato's philosophical Republic . Poetry then is an imitation of nature , but the imagination and the passions are a part of man's nature . We shape ...
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... Never , lago . Like to the Pontic sea , Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb , but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont : Even so my bloody thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back ...
... Never , lago . Like to the Pontic sea , Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb , but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont : Even so my bloody thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back ...
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... bounds to the wilful suggestions of our hopes and fears . " And visions , as poetic eyes avow , ' Hang on each leaf and cling to every bough . " There can never be another Jacob's dream . Since that 18 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... bounds to the wilful suggestions of our hopes and fears . " And visions , as poetic eyes avow , ' Hang on each leaf and cling to every bough . " There can never be another Jacob's dream . Since that 18 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. There can never be another Jacob's dream . Since that time , the heavens have gone farther off , and grown astronomical . They have become averse to the imagination , nor will they return to us on the squares of the ...
William Hazlitt. There can never be another Jacob's dream . Since that time , the heavens have gone farther off , and grown astronomical . They have become averse to the imagination , nor will they return to us on the squares of the ...
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... make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
... make the eye of child- hood glisten with the starting tear , to be never thought of afterwards with indifference , John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe may be permitted to The prints If the con- pass for poets in their ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 27.
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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.