Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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William Hazlitt. no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind of man , which he would be eager to communicate to others , or which they would listen to with delight , that is not a fit subject for poetry . It is not a branch ...
William Hazlitt. no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind of man , which he would be eager to communicate to others , or which they would listen to with delight , that is not a fit subject for poetry . It is not a branch ...
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... thought , and penetrates our whole being . Poetry repre- sents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the ...
... thought , and penetrates our whole being . Poetry repre- sents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the ...
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... thoughts and feelings , into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power . This language is not the less true to nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the ...
... thoughts and feelings , into an infinite variety of shapes and combinations of power . This language is not the less true to nature , because it is false in point of fact ; but so much the more true and natural , if it conveys the ...
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... thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back , ne'er ebb to humble love , Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up . " - The climax of his expostulation afterwards with Desdemona is at that line , " But there where I ...
... thoughts , with violent pace , Shall ne'er look back , ne'er ebb to humble love , Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up . " - The climax of his expostulation afterwards with Desdemona is at that line , " But there where I ...
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... thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ...
... thought and feeling into play with tenfold force . Impassioned poetry is an emanation of the moral and intellectual part of our nature , as well as of the sensitive - of the desire to know , the will to act , and the power to feel ; and ...
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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.