A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and NotesGinn, 1890 - 82 páginas |
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... ancient law , defended by reverence , defended by power , a fortress at once and a temple , shall stand inviolate on the brow of the British Sion- as long as the British monarchy , not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state ...
... ancient law , defended by reverence , defended by power , a fortress at once and a temple , shall stand inviolate on the brow of the British Sion- as long as the British monarchy , not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state ...
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... ancient drama , Shelley has his eye upon the Athenians , Sidney upon Seneca and Plautus . His acquaintance with Greek literature enabled Shelley to assume toward Roman poetry the attitude of a stern but upright judge ; this is shown as ...
... ancient drama , Shelley has his eye upon the Athenians , Sidney upon Seneca and Plautus . His acquaintance with Greek literature enabled Shelley to assume toward Roman poetry the attitude of a stern but upright judge ; this is shown as ...
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... ancients , and what by the moderns ? If it were possible to compare the utterances of men so various as Pindar , Horace , Dante , Milton , Goethe , Schiller , Burns , and Shelley himself— Shelley the artist rather than Shelley the ...
... ancients , and what by the moderns ? If it were possible to compare the utterances of men so various as Pindar , Horace , Dante , Milton , Goethe , Schiller , Burns , and Shelley himself— Shelley the artist rather than Shelley the ...
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... the eternal proportions of their beauty . An epic or dramatic personage is understood to wear them around his soul , as he may the ancient armor or But modern uniform around his body ; whilst it is easy. 12 POETRY MUST ELEVATE .
... the eternal proportions of their beauty . An epic or dramatic personage is understood to wear them around his soul , as he may the ancient armor or But modern uniform around his body ; whilst it is easy. 12 POETRY MUST ELEVATE .
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... ancient Rome ; but the actions and forms of its social life never seem to have been 25 perfectly saturated with the poetical element . The Romans appear to have considered the Greeks as the selectest treasuries of the selectest forms of ...
... ancient Rome ; but the actions and forms of its social life never seem to have been 25 perfectly saturated with the poetical element . The Romans appear to have considered the Greeks as the selectest treasuries of the selectest forms of ...
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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...