Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Templeman, 1841 - 407 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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... 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 imagi- nation , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or ...
... 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 imagi- nation , not divested of that medium by means of literal truth or ...
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... reason why the same principle should not be extended to the sounds by which the voice utters these emotions of the soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the in- herent defect of harmony in the customary ...
... reason why the same principle should not be extended to the sounds by which the voice utters these emotions of the soul , and blends syllables and lines into each other . It is to supply the in- herent defect of harmony in the customary ...
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