Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 páginas |
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... 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 history is a ...
... 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 history is a ...
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... beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heav'n to earth , from earth to heav'n ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and ...
... beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heav'n to earth , from earth to heav'n ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and ...
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... beauty or power that cannot be con- tained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in ...
... beauty or power that cannot be con- tained within itself ; that is impatient of all limit ; that ( as flame bends to flame ) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur ; to enshrine itself , as it were , in ...
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... beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gi- gantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the excess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to ...
... beauty , a more lustrous effect to the imagination than the purest gold . We compare a man of gi- gantic stature to a tower : not that he is any thing like so large , but because the excess of his size beyond what we are accustomed to ...
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... terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or contempt , as our love ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 13.
... terror and pity exercise the same despotic control over it as those of love or beauty . It is as natural to hate as to love , to despise as to admire , to express our hatred or contempt , as our love ON POETRY IN GENERAL . 13.
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