Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... whole being : without it " man's life is poor as beast's . " . Man is a 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 ...
... whole being : without it " man's life is poor as beast's . " . Man is a 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 ...
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... 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 flowing , not the fixed . It ...
... 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 flowing , not the fixed . It ...
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... 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.
... 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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... of Shakspeare , which is true poetry , stirs our inmost affections ; abstracts evil from itself by combining it with all the forms of imagination , and with the deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole 12 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... of Shakspeare , which is true poetry , stirs our inmost affections ; abstracts evil from itself by combining it with all the forms of imagination , and with the deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole 12 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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William Hazlitt. deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The 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 ...
William Hazlitt. deepest workings of the heart , and rouses the whole man within us . The 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 ...
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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.