Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men : for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is the universal ...
... pleasure or pain to the human mind . It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men : for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape , can be a sub- ject for poetry . Poetry is the universal ...
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... pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind ...
... pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner , and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances . Poetry , according to Lord Bacon , for this reason , " has something divine in it , because it raises the mind ...
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... 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 feeling to the utmost point 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 feeling to the utmost point of ...
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... pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry , is not any thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an anomaly of the imagination . It has its source and ground - work in the common love of ...
... pleasure , however , derived from tragic poetry , is not any thing peculiar to it as poetry , as a fictitious and fanciful thing . It is not an anomaly of the imagination . It has its source and ground - work in the common love of ...
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... , and to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... , and to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 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.