Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do . " It is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents 6 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... making us sensible of the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 11.
... making us sensible of the magnitude of the loss . The storm of passion lays bare and shews us the rich depths of the human soul : the whole of our existence , the sum total of our passions and pursuits , of that ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 11.
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... soul of harmony . ” Wherever any object takes such a hold of the mind as to make us dwell upon it , and brood over it , melting the heart in tenderness , or kindling it to a senti- ment of enthusiasm ; -wherever a movement of ...
... soul of harmony . ” Wherever any object takes such a hold of the mind as to make us dwell upon it , and brood over it , melting the heart in tenderness , or kindling it to a senti- ment of enthusiasm ; -wherever a movement of ...
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... soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself ...
... soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the inherent defect of harmony in the customary mechanism of language , to make the sound an echo to the sense , when the sense becomes a sort of echo to itself ...
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... soul out of itself with indescribable longings , is poetry in kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being " married to immortal verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will ...
... soul out of itself with indescribable longings , is poetry in kind , and generally fit to become so in name , by being " married to immortal verse . " If it is of the essence of poetry to strike and fix the imagination , whether we will ...
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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.