Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the AgeJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 349 páginas |
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... reason can . > The lunatic , the lover , and the poet Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's ...
... reason can . > The lunatic , the lover , and the poet Are of imagination all compact . One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; The madman . While the lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's ...
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... reason , has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity , by conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do ...
... reason , has something divine in it , because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity , by conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul , instead of subjecting the soul to external things , as reason and history do ...
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William Hazlitt. as reason and history do . ' It is strictly the language of the imagina- tion ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects , not as they are in themselves , but as they are moulded by other thoughts and ...
William Hazlitt. as reason and history do . ' It is strictly the language of the imagina- tion ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects , not as they are in themselves , but as they are moulded by other thoughts and ...
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... reason , however affecting at the time , oppress and lie like a dead weight upon the mind , a load of misery which it is unable to throw off the tragedy of Shakspeare , which is true poetry , stirs our inmost affections ; abstracts evil ...
... reason , however affecting at the time , oppress and lie like a dead weight upon the mind , a load of misery which it is unable to throw off the tragedy of Shakspeare , which is true poetry , stirs our inmost affections ; abstracts evil ...
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... reason : for the end and use of poetry , both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror up to nature , ' seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract ...
... reason : for the end and use of poetry , both at the first and now , was and is to hold the mirror up to nature , ' seen through the medium of passion and imagination , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or abstract ...
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