Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If ...
... sense of beauty , or power , or harmony , as in the motion of a wave of the sea , in the growth of a flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air , and dedicates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If ...
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... sense , or analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling . The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite ...
... sense , or analyze the distinctions of the understanding , but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling . The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy , exquisite ...
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... senses in a state of agitation or fear - and the imagina- tion will distort or magnify the object , and con- vert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other ...
... senses in a state of agitation or fear - and the imagina- tion will distort or magnify the object , and con- vert it into the likeness of whatever is most proper to encourage the fear . " Our eyes are made the fools " of our other ...
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... sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we ...
... sense of personal beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gigantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the ex- cess of his size beyond what we ...
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... sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past ...
... sense of present suffering in the imaginary exaggeration of it ; exhausts the terror or pity by an unlimited indulgence of it ; grapples with impossibilities in its desperate im- patience of restraint ; throws us back upon the past ...
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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.