Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere delineation of natural feelings ...
... poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind " which ecstacy is very cun- ning in . " Neither a mere description of natural ob- jects , nor a mere delineation of natural feelings ...
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... Poetry repre- sents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not ...
... Poetry repre- sents forms chiefly as they suggest other forms ; feelings , as they suggest forms or other feelings . Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe . It describes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not ...
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William Hazlitt. flame to accord with the speaker's own feelings , is true poetry . The lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair ...
William Hazlitt. flame to accord with the speaker's own feelings , is true poetry . The lover , equally with the poet , speaks of the auburn tresses of his mistress as locks of shining gold , because the least tinge of yellow in the hair ...
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... poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the feeling to the utmost point of sub- limity or pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary ...
... poetry , which is the most impassioned species of it , strives to carry on the feeling to the utmost point of sub- limity or pathos , by all the force of comparison or contrast ; loses the sense of present suffering in the imaginary ...
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... throats Th ' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit , Farewel ! Othello's occupation's gone ! " How his passion lashes itself up and swells and rages like a tide in its sounding course , when 10 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... throats Th ' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit , Farewel ! Othello's occupation's gone ! " How his passion lashes itself up and swells and rages like a tide in its sounding course , when 10 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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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.