Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... 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 .
... 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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... to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... to contend with it to the utmost . Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion , the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our con- ception of any thing , whether pleasurable or pain- ful 14 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... But that chapter does not need a commentary ! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms . They are marble to the touch and to the heart ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... forms are a reproach to common humanity . They seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance ...
... forms are a reproach to common humanity . They seem to have no sympathy with us , and not to want our admiration . Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling , combined with passion and fancy . In its mode of conveyance ...
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... forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own poetry which has been most admired , is only poetry in the rhyme , and in the studied use of poetic diction . them before us , their number , and their ...
... forms of the ima- gination . It is didactic more than dramatic . And some of our own poetry which has been most admired , is only poetry in the rhyme , and in the studied use of poetic diction . them before us , their number , and their ...
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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.