A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and NotesGinn, 1890 - 82 páginas |
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Página xviii
... Homer being an instance in point . The truth re- vealed by poetry is infinitely attractive , but can only be seen by ordinary men in the creations of the bard ; the latter are therefore true in the deepest sense , and fictitious only in ...
... Homer being an instance in point . The truth re- vealed by poetry is infinitely attractive , but can only be seen by ordinary men in the creations of the bard ; the latter are therefore true in the deepest sense , and fictitious only in ...
Página xxiv
... Homer , which are pro- nounced to be certainly not genuine and quite new , are of the same kind as some which I myself interpolated into my poem , after it was finished , in order to make the whole clearer and more intelligible , and to ...
... Homer , which are pro- nounced to be certainly not genuine and quite new , are of the same kind as some which I myself interpolated into my poem , after it was finished , in order to make the whole clearer and more intelligible , and to ...
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... Homer and This contemporaries were the delight of infant 5 Greece ; they were the elements of that social sys- tem which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed . Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age ...
... Homer and This contemporaries were the delight of infant 5 Greece ; they were the elements of that social sys- tem which is the column upon which all succeeding civilization has reposed . Homer embodied the ideal perfection of his age ...
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... Homer , or any of the 30 eternal poets , should have so far misunderstood themselves as to have abdicated this throne of their widest dominion . Those in whom the poet- ical faculty , though great , is less intense , as Euri- poetry ...
... Homer , or any of the 30 eternal poets , should have so far misunderstood themselves as to have abdicated this throne of their widest dominion . Those in whom the poet- ical faculty , though great , is less intense , as Euri- poetry ...
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... Homer and the cyclic poets were followed at a 5 certain interval by the dramatic and lyrical poets of Athens , who flourished contemporaneously with all that is most perfect in the kindred expressions of the poetical faculty ...
... Homer and the cyclic poets were followed at a 5 certain interval by the dramatic and lyrical poets of Athens , who flourished contemporaneously with all that is most perfect in the kindred expressions of the poetical faculty ...
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Página 76 - For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Página xxiii - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 79 - And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Página 76 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Página 13 - 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.
Página 46 - 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 5 - ... 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 73 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference.
Página 26 - Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand, Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond Which keeps me pale ! — Light thickens ; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood : Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Página 38 - ... spring, and that which adorns all; and that which, if blighted, denies the fruit and the seed, and withholds from the barren world the nourishment and the succession of the scions of the tree of life. It is the perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things...