Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet in fact , when he ...
... poetical animal : and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry , act upon them all our lives , like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme , who had always spoken prose without knowing it . The child is a poet in fact , when he ...
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... 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 things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ...
... 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 things according to our wishes and fancies , without poetry ...
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... 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 itself to some other image ...
... 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 itself to some other image ...
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... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experimental philoso- phy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
... poetical enthusiasm is much the same ; and both have received a sensible shock from the progress of experimental philoso- phy . It is the undefined and uncommon that gives birth and scope to the imagination ; we can only fancy what we ...
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... poetical than painting . When artists or connois- seurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they shew that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
... poetical than painting . When artists or connois- seurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting , they shew that they know little about poetry , and have little love for the art . Painting gives the object itself ; poetry what it ...
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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.