Peacock's Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry, Browning's Essay on ShelleyB. Blackwell, 1921 - 112 páginas |
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... Livy ; and travelled out of the confines of truth and history into the old regions of poetry and fiction . Good sense and elegant learning , conveyed in polished and somewhat monotonous verse , are the perfection of the original and ...
... Livy ; and travelled out of the confines of truth and history into the old regions of poetry and fiction . Good sense and elegant learning , conveyed in polished and somewhat monotonous verse , are the perfection of the original and ...
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... Livy , were poets ; and although the plan of these writers , especially that of Livy , restrained them from developing this faculty in its highest degree , they made copious and ample amends for their subjection , by filling all the ...
... Livy , were poets ; and although the plan of these writers , especially that of Livy , restrained them from developing this faculty in its highest degree , they made copious and ample amends for their subjection , by filling all the ...
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... Livy is instinct with poetry . Yet Horace , Catullus , Ovid , and generally the other great writers of the Virgilian age , saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece . The institutions also , and the religion of Rome , were less ...
... Livy is instinct with poetry . Yet Horace , Catullus , Ovid , and generally the other great writers of the Virgilian age , saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece . The institutions also , and the religion of Rome , were less ...
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... Livy : Shelley had originally written in his first draft of the Defence ( Bod . MS . Shelley d . 1 , f . 69 v . ) , ' Thus Livy is essentially a poet , ' and had added as instances ' the defeat of Asdrubal , the orgies of the Roman ...
... Livy : Shelley had originally written in his first draft of the Defence ( Bod . MS . Shelley d . 1 , f . 69 v . ) , ' Thus Livy is essentially a poet , ' and had added as instances ' the defeat of Asdrubal , the orgies of the Roman ...
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... Livy is instinct with poetry : see note to 31 , 12 . 41 , 28. the substance : Shelley's original draft ( Bod . MS . Shelley d . 1 , f . 59 ) continues as follows : ' Yet Poetry lived & lived in its intensest splendour in Rome ...
... Livy is instinct with poetry : see note to 31 , 12 . 41 , 28. the substance : Shelley's original draft ( Bod . MS . Shelley d . 1 , f . 59 ) continues as follows : ' Yet Poetry lived & lived in its intensest splendour in Rome ...
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Página 33 - The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void for ever craves fresh food. Poetry strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as...
Página 53 - Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought...
Página 54 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Página xix - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Página 90 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 52 - We have more moral, political, and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice ; we have more scientific and economical knowledge than can be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies.
Página 30 - Lord Bacon was a poet. His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends, and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind, and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpetual sympathy.
Página 56 - ... strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
Página 105 - Between his old feelings towards Harriet, from whom he was not then separated, and his new passion for Mary, he showed in his looks, in his gestures, in his speech, the state of a mind "suffering, like a little kingdom, the nature of an insurrection".
Página 95 - Then, as we have many wants, and many persons are needed to supply them, one takes a helper for one purpose and another for another; and when these partners and helpers are gathered together in one habitation the body of inhabitants is termed a state.