A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquetLea and Blanchard, 1840 |
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... excellent in spite of adversity and torture , is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy , not from any mistaken notion of inducing him to repent of a perseverance in enmity ...
... excellent in spite of adversity and torture , is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy , not from any mistaken notion of inducing him to repent of a perseverance in enmity ...
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... excellent in battle , and Menelaus but a faint - hearted warrior , he represents Menelaus as coming uninvited to the feast of one better and braver than himself . " -Aristodemus hearing this , said , " I also am in some danger ...
... excellent in battle , and Menelaus but a faint - hearted warrior , he represents Menelaus as coming uninvited to the feast of one better and braver than himself . " -Aristodemus hearing this , said , " I also am in some danger ...
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... excellent discussion might arise on the sub- ject . Every one ought , according to my plan , to . praise Love with as much eloquence as he can . Let Phædrus begin first , both because he reclines the first in order , and because he is ...
... excellent discussion might arise on the sub- ject . Every one ought , according to my plan , to . praise Love with as much eloquence as he can . Let Phædrus begin first , both because he reclines the first in order , and because he is ...
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... excellent life , as Love awakens them . I speak of the fear of shame , which deters them from that which is disgraceful ; and the love of glory , which incites to honourable deeds . For it is not possible that a state or private person ...
... excellent life , as Love awakens them . I speak of the fear of shame , which deters them from that which is disgraceful ; and the love of glory , which incites to honourable deeds . For it is not possible that a state or private person ...
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... excellent ; and , in truth , as Homer says : The god breathes vigour into certain heroes - so Love breathes into those who love , the spirit which is produced from himself . Not only men , but even women who love , are those alone who ...
... excellent ; and , in truth , as Homer says : The god breathes vigour into certain heroes - so Love breathes into those who love , the spirit which is produced from himself . Not only men , but even women who love , are those alone who ...
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Página 29 - But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion.
Página 54 - But it exceeds all imagination to conceive what would have been the moral condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton had ever existed...
Página 30 - But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man. And this springs from the nature itself of language, which is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than colour, form, or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the control...
Página 62 - The persons in whom this power resides, may often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul.
Página 58 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the 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...
Página 57 - It is as it were the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it.
Página 56 - The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
Página 29 - A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not. The grammatical forms which express the moods of time, and the difference of persons, and the distinction of place, are convertible with respect to the highest poetry without injuring it as poetry...
Página 35 - Few poets of the highest class have chosen to exhibit the beauty of their conceptions in its naked truth and splendour ; and it is doubtful whether the alloy of costume, habit, &c., be not necessary to temper this planetary music for mortal ears.
Página 35 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.