Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and FragmentsWilliam Smith, 1845 - 164 páginas |
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... language is imaginative but not flowery ; the periods have an intonation full of majesty and grace ; and the harmony of the style being united to melodious thought , a music results , that swells upon the ear , and fills the mind with ...
... language is imaginative but not flowery ; the periods have an intonation full of majesty and grace ; and the harmony of the style being united to melodious thought , a music results , that swells upon the ear , and fills the mind with ...
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... language with which the ideas are invested in the original , and are dry and stiff compared with the soaring poetry , the grace , subtlety , and infinite variety of Plato . They want , also , the dramatic vivacity , and the touch of ...
... language with which the ideas are invested in the original , and are dry and stiff compared with the soaring poetry , the grace , subtlety , and infinite variety of Plato . They want , also , the dramatic vivacity , and the touch of ...
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... languages , to designate the crime which gave them notoriety . Shelley's old favourite , the Wandering Jew , appears in the latter chapters , and , with his wild and fearful introduction into the domestic circle of a peaceful family of ...
... languages , to designate the crime which gave them notoriety . Shelley's old favourite , the Wandering Jew , appears in the latter chapters , and , with his wild and fearful introduction into the domestic circle of a peaceful family of ...
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... language , which has become one with certain ideas , and those very ideas erroneous . Had not Shelley deserted metaphysics for poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked ...
... language , which has become one with certain ideas , and those very ideas erroneous . Had not Shelley deserted metaphysics for poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked ...
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... language , his success proves . But he was singularly deficient in reason . When Socrates presses on him the question of , whether he as a rhapsodist is as well versed in nautical , hippodromic , and other arts , as sailors ...
... language , his success proves . But he was singularly deficient in reason . When Socrates presses on him the question of , whether he as a rhapsodist is as well versed in nautical , hippodromic , and other arts , as sailors ...
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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.