Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and FragmentsWilliam Smith, 1845 - 164 páginas |
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... kind . Hence men , even in the infancy of society , observe a certain order in their words and actions , distinct from that of the objects and the impressions represented by them , all expression being subject to the laws of that from ...
... kind . Hence men , even in the infancy of society , observe a certain order in their words and actions , distinct from that of the objects and the impressions represented by them , all expression being subject to the laws of that from ...
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... kind by artists of the most consummate skill , and was disciplined into a beautiful proportion and unity one towards the other . On the modern stage a few only of the elements capable of express- ing the image of the poet's conception ...
... kind by artists of the most consummate skill , and was disciplined into a beautiful proportion and unity one towards the other . On the modern stage a few only of the elements capable of express- ing the image of the poet's conception ...
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... kind is distributed , has become less mis- understood ; and if the error which confounded diversity with inequality of the powers of the two sexes has been partially recognised in the opinions and institutions of modern Europe , we owe ...
... kind is distributed , has become less mis- understood ; and if the error which confounded diversity with inequality of the powers of the two sexes has been partially recognised in the opinions and institutions of modern Europe , we owe ...
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... kind of type or expres- sion of the rest , a common basis , an acknowledged and visible link . Still it is a claim which even derives a strength not its own from the accessory circumstances which surround it , and one which our nature ...
... kind of type or expres- sion of the rest , a common basis , an acknowledged and visible link . Still it is a claim which even derives a strength not its own from the accessory circumstances which surround it , and one which our nature ...
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... kind . Plato exhibits the rare union of close and subtle logic , with the Pythian enthusiasm of poetry , melted by the splendour and harmony of his periods into one irresistible stream of musical impres- sions , which hurry the ...
... kind . Plato exhibits the rare union of close and subtle logic , with the Pythian enthusiasm of poetry , melted by the splendour and harmony of his periods into one irresistible stream of musical impres- sions , which hurry the ...
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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.