Lectures on the English PoetsDodd, Mead, & Company, 1892 - 342 páginas |
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... poetry of it . Fear is poetry , hope is poetry , love is poetry , hatred is poetry ; contempt , jealousy , re- morse , admiration , wonder , pity , despair , or mad- ness , are all poetry . Poetry is that fine particle within us that ...
... poetry of it . Fear is poetry , hope is poetry , love is poetry , hatred is poetry ; contempt , jealousy , re- morse , admiration , wonder , pity , despair , or mad- ness , are all poetry . Poetry is that fine particle within us that ...
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... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination.'1 If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination.'1 If poetry is a dream , the business of life is much the same . If it is a fiction , made up of what we ...
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... poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind which ecstasy is very cunning in . ' Neither a mere description of natural objects , nor a mere de- / lineation of natural feelings ...
... poetry ; but poetry is the most emphatical language that can be found for those creations of the mind which ecstasy is very cunning in . ' Neither a mere description of natural objects , nor a mere de- / lineation of natural feelings ...
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... Poetry represents 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 de- scribes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not ...
... Poetry represents 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 de- scribes the flowing , not the fixed . It does not ...
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... would under - peep her lids To see the enclosed lights , ' - this passionate interpretation of the motion of the flame , to accord with the speaker's own 2 ---- feelings , is true poetry . The lover , On Poetry in General . 15.
... would under - peep her lids To see the enclosed lights , ' - this passionate interpretation of the motion of the flame , to accord with the speaker's own 2 ---- feelings , is true poetry . The lover , On Poetry in General . 15.
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1818 |
Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1818 |
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Página 155 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 236 - Unanxious for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of fate Strikes thro...
Página 27 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 314 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 133 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...
Página 78 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 134 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 190 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Página 281 - HERE'S a health to ane I lo'e dear! Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear ! Thou art sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, And soft as their parting tear...
Página 131 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?