Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... object or event , by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion , and pro- ducing , by sympathy , a certain modulation of the voice , or sounds , expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first ...
... object or event , by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion , and pro- ducing , by sympathy , a certain modulation of the voice , or sounds , expressing it . In treating of poetry , I shall speak first ...
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... of the imagination . The light of poetry is not only a direct but also a reflected light , that while it shews us the object , throws a sparkling radiance on all around it : the flame of the passions , communi- ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 5.
... of the imagination . The light of poetry is not only a direct but also a reflected light , that while it shews us the object , throws a sparkling radiance on all around it : the flame of the passions , communi- ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 5.
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... object or feeling . The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link ...
... object or feeling . The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link ...
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William Hazlitt. imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects , not as they are in them ... object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object , for instance , be presented to the senses ...
William Hazlitt. imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects , not as they are in them ... object under the influence of passion makes on the mind . Let an object , for instance , be presented to the senses ...
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... object of ten times the same dimensions . The intensity of the feeling makes up for the dis- proportion of the objects . Things are equal to the imagination , which have the power of affecting the mind with an equal degree of terror ...
... object of ten times the same dimensions . The intensity of the feeling makes up for the dis- proportion of the objects . Things are equal to the imagination , which have the power of affecting the mind with an equal degree of terror ...
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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.