A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and NotesGinn, 1890 - 82 páginas |
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... religion , Hence all original religions are allegorical , or susceptible of allegory , and , like 3o Janus , have a double face of false and true . Poets , according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared ...
... religion , Hence all original religions are allegorical , or susceptible of allegory , and , like 3o Janus , have a double face of false and true . Poets , according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared ...
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... religious and civil habits of action , are all the instruments and mate- rials of poetry ; they may be called poetry by that 30 figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonym of the cause . But poetry in a more restricted ...
... religious and civil habits of action , are all the instruments and mate- rials of poetry ; they may be called poetry by that 30 figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonym of the cause . But poetry in a more restricted ...
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... religions , 25 so long as their institutions last , alone seems to exceed that of poets in the restricted sense ; but it can scarcely be a question , whether , if we deduct the celebrity which their flattery of the gross opinions of the ...
... religions , 25 so long as their institutions last , alone seems to exceed that of poets in the restricted sense ; but it can scarcely be a question , whether , if we deduct the celebrity which their flattery of the gross opinions of the ...
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... religion and solemnity . Religious institution has indeed been usually ban- ished from the stage . Our system of divesting the actor's face of a mask , on which the many 30 expressions appropriated to his dramatic character might be ...
... religion and solemnity . Religious institution has indeed been usually ban- ished from the stage . Our system of divesting the actor's face of a mask , on which the many 30 expressions appropriated to his dramatic character might be ...
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... religious Autos , has attempted to 20 fulfil some of the high conditions of dramatic rep- resentation neglected by Shakespeare ; such as the establishing a relation between the drama and religion , and the accommodating them to music ...
... religious Autos , has attempted to 20 fulfil some of the high conditions of dramatic rep- resentation neglected by Shakespeare ; such as the establishing a relation between the drama and religion , and the accommodating them to music ...
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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...