Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 páginas |
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... inhabitants of a diviner world . The familiar appearance and pro- ceedings of life became wonderful and heavenly , and a paradise was created as out of the wrecks of Eden . And as this creation itself is poetry , so its creators were ...
... inhabitants of a diviner world . The familiar appearance and pro- ceedings of life became wonderful and heavenly , and a paradise was created as out of the wrecks of Eden . And as this creation itself is poetry , so its creators were ...
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... inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos . It reproduces the common uni- verse of which we are portions and percipients , and it purges from our inward sight the film of fami- liarity which obscures from us the ...
... inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos . It reproduces the common uni- verse of which we are portions and percipients , and it purges from our inward sight the film of fami- liarity which obscures from us the ...
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... inhabitants of paradise . To live , to breathe , to move , was itself a sensation of immeasurable transport . Every new contemplation of the condition of his nature brought to the happy enthusiast an added measure of delight , and ...
... inhabitants of paradise . To live , to breathe , to move , was itself a sensation of immeasurable transport . Every new contemplation of the condition of his nature brought to the happy enthusiast an added measure of delight , and ...
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... inhabitant of a civilised com- munity , would wage unremitting hostility from principle . He would find himself compelled to adopt means which they would abhor , for the sake of an object which they could not conceive that he should ...
... inhabitant of a civilised com- munity , would wage unremitting hostility from principle . He would find himself compelled to adopt means which they would abhor , for the sake of an object which they could not conceive that he should ...
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... inhabitants of the various planets of this and other solar systems ; and the existence of a Power bearing the same relation to all that we perceive and are , as what we call a cause does to what we call effect , were never subjects of ...
... inhabitants of the various planets of this and other solar systems ; and the existence of a Power bearing the same relation to all that we perceive and are , as what we call a cause does to what we call effect , were never subjects of ...
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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.