Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 74
Página iii
... Poet , it is true , is the son of his time ; but pity for him if he is its pupil , or even its favourite ! Let some beneficent deity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother , and nurse him with the milk of a better time ...
... Poet , it is true , is the son of his time ; but pity for him if he is its pupil , or even its favourite ! Let some beneficent deity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother , and nurse him with the milk of a better time ...
Página v
... poet , " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . ” * But this is not enough — we desire to know the man . We desire to learn how much of the sensibility and imagination that animates his poetry was ...
... poet , " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . ” * But this is not enough — we desire to know the man . We desire to learn how much of the sensibility and imagination that animates his poetry was ...
Página vi
... poetry . The fragments that follow form an introduction to " The Banquet " or " Symposium ” of Plato - and that noble piece of writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of ...
... poetry . The fragments that follow form an introduction to " The Banquet " or " Symposium ” of Plato - and that noble piece of writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of ...
Página vii
... poet , reasoning in favour of humanity and refinement , must possess . It alleges all the arguments that an ... poem entitled " Heaven : " and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim , " Peace ! the abyss is wreathed in scorn Of ...
... poet , reasoning in favour of humanity and refinement , must possess . It alleges all the arguments that an ... poem entitled " Heaven : " and when he makes one of the interlocutors exclaim , " Peace ! the abyss is wreathed in scorn Of ...
Página viii
... poem of " The Sensitive Plant " express , in some degree , the almost inexpressible idea , not that we die into ... poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked with him in the ...
... poem of " The Sensitive Plant " express , in some degree , the almost inexpressible idea , not that we die into ... poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked with him in the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
actions admirable affectionate Agathon Alcibiades ancient Apollodorus appeared Ariosto Aristodemus Aristophanes arrived Bagni di Lucca beautiful become boat called clouds columns conceive dark DEAR death delight desire Diotima discourse divine effect England Eryximachus eternal evil excellent existence express feel Florence GISBORNE glacier Gods Greeks happiness harmony hear Hesiod Homer honourable hope human imagination immense inhabitants inspired Italy journey lake language LEIGH HUNT Lerici letter living Livorno Lord Byron manner MENEXENUS mind Mont Blanc moral morning mountains nature never night object observe opinion overhang pain Pausanias perfect perhaps perpetually person Phædrus Pisa Plato pleasure poem poetry poets possession praise present produced regard relation rhapsodist road rocks Rome ruins sail scene sculpture seems seen Shelley Socrates spirit sublime suffered things thought tion truth virtue walked whilst wind wonder words write