Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and FragmentsWilliam Smith, 1845 - 164 páginas |
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... darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician , who feel that they are moved and soft- ened , yet know not whence or why . The poems of Homer and ...
... darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds ; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician , who feel that they are moved and soft- ened , yet know not whence or why . The poems of Homer and ...
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... darkness , but that there were found poets among the authors of the Christian and chivalric systems of manners and ... dark ages to the Christian doctrines or the predominance of the Celtic nations . Whatever of evil their agencies may ...
... darkness , but that there were found poets among the authors of the Christian and chivalric systems of manners and ... dark ages to the Christian doctrines or the predominance of the Celtic nations . Whatever of evil their agencies may ...
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... darkness of the benighted world . His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is as a spark , a burning atom of inextinguishable thought ; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth , and pregnant with a lightning which has ...
... darkness of the benighted world . His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is as a spark , a burning atom of inextinguishable thought ; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth , and pregnant with a lightning which has ...
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... dark veil from before the scene of things , it equally creates for us a being within our being . It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos . It reproduces the common uni- verse of which we are ...
... dark veil from before the scene of things , it equally creates for us a being within our being . It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos . It reproduces the common uni- verse of which we are ...
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... dark and extravagant fiction . But , omitting the comparison of individual minds , which can afford no general inference , how superior was the spirit and system of their poetry to that of any other period . So that , had any other ...
... dark and extravagant fiction . But , omitting the comparison of individual minds , which can afford no general inference , how superior was the spirit and system of their poetry to that of any other period . So that , had any other ...
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Adieu admirable affectionately Agathon ancient Apennines Apollo Apollonius Rhodius appearance arch Aristodemus arms arrived astonishing Bacchus Bagni Bagni di Lucca beautiful boat Bologna called clouds columns conceive countenance dark DEAR FRIENDS,-I DEAREST death delight desire divine England English Eryximachus excellent expect expression faithfully feel Florence forests GISBORNE glacier Greeks hear Henry Homer honourable hope human imagination immense inhabitants Italy JOHN GISBORNE journey Keats kind lake leaves Leghorn LEIGH HUNT Lerici LETTER Livorno look Lord Byron magnificent manner Mary mind Mont Blanc moral morning mountains Naples nature never overhang pain perfect perhaps perpetually person Petrarch Pisa Plato pleasure poem poet poetry praise produced Ravenna road rocks Rome ruins scene sculpture seems seen sequins Servoz SHELLEY side Socrates soon spirit sublime suffered sweet tell things thought whilst wind write
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Página 3 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Página 3 - It transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes : its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life ; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.
Página 3 - But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured cm-tain, or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being. It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos.
Página 3 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ; it arrests the I vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in ! form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide — abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things.
Página viii - Their language is vitally metaphorical ; that is, it marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which represent them, become, through time, signs for portions or classes of thoughts instead of pictures of integral thoughts ; and then, if no new poets should arise to create afresh the associations which have been thus disorganized, language will be dead to all the nobler purposes of human intercourse.
Página 2 - We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest.
Página 31 - It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Página xv - Trouveurs, or inventors, preceded Petrarch, whose verses are as spells, which unseal the inmost enchanted fountains of the delight which is in the grief of love. It is impossible to feel them without becoming a portion of that beauty which we contemplate...
Página 1 - It is difficult to define pleasure in its highest sense ; the definition involving a number of apparent paradoxes. For, from an inexplicable defect of harmony in the constitution of human nature, the pain of the inferior is frequently connected with the pleasures of the superior portions of our being. Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself, are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good.