Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... idea of it by every refinement of ingenuity and extravagance of illus- tration ; to make it a bugbear to ourselves , to point it out to oth- ers in all the splendour of deformity , to embody 8 [ LECTURE 1 . ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... idea of it by every refinement of ingenuity and extravagance of illus- tration ; to make it a bugbear to ourselves , to point it out to oth- ers in all the splendour of deformity , to embody 8 [ LECTURE 1 . ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... ideas should be expressed in prose , another in verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line : - " Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the ...
... ideas should be expressed in prose , another in verse . Milton has told us his idea of poetry in a single line : - " Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers . " As there are certain sounds that excite certain movements , and the ...
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... ideas , nor in their gram- matical arrangements in common speech , is there any principle of natural imitation , or ... idea gives a tone and colour to others , where one feeling melts others into it , there can be no reason why the ...
... ideas , nor in their gram- matical arrangements in common speech , is there any principle of natural imitation , or ... idea gives a tone and colour to others , where one feeling melts others into it , there can be no reason why the ...
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... idea of Provi- dence ; Dante is a personification of blind will ; and in Ossian we see the decay of life , and the fag end of the world . Homer's poetry is the heroic : it is full of life and action : it is bright as the day , strong as ...
... idea of Provi- dence ; Dante is a personification of blind will ; and in Ossian we see the decay of life , and the fag end of the world . Homer's poetry is the heroic : it is full of life and action : it is bright as the day , strong as ...
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... ideas of nature are like its ideas of God . It is not the poetry of social life , but of solitude each man seems alone ... idea of God was removed farther from humanity and a scattered polytheism , it became more profound and in- tense ...
... ideas of nature are like its ideas of God . It is not the poetry of social life , but of solitude each man seems alone ... idea of God was removed farther from humanity and a scattered polytheism , it became more profound and in- tense ...
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