A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and NotesGinn, 1890 - 82 páginas |
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Página xxi
... Song irradiates him ( P. 9 , 97 ) , and he is a leader in the skill of poesy , which to him is by eminence wisdom ( σopía ) , wisdom in the art of the theme , and in the art of the treatment . " And again ( p . xliii ) : " Pindar is a ...
... Song irradiates him ( P. 9 , 97 ) , and he is a leader in the skill of poesy , which to him is by eminence wisdom ( σopía ) , wisdom in the art of the theme , and in the art of the treatment . " And again ( p . xliii ) : " Pindar is a ...
Página xxiv
... Song of the Bell ( Letter to Goethe , July 7 , 1797 ) : " I have now gone to work at my bell - founder's song , and since yesterday I have been studying in Kruenitz's Encyclopædia , out of which I get a great deal of profit . This poem ...
... Song of the Bell ( Letter to Goethe , July 7 , 1797 ) : " I have now gone to work at my bell - founder's song , and since yesterday I have been studying in Kruenitz's Encyclopædia , out of which I get a great deal of profit . This poem ...
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... song , in the combina- 5 tions of language , in the series of their imitations of natural objects . For there is a certain order or rhythm belonging to each of these classes of mimetic representation , from which the hearer and the ...
... song , in the combina- 5 tions of language , in the series of their imitations of natural objects . For there is a certain order or rhythm belonging to each of these classes of mimetic representation , from which the hearer and the ...
Página 40
... song . " And let this be an answer to those who would allege the fifty - six various readings of the first line of the Orlando 5 Furioso . Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting . The instinct and in- tuition ...
... song . " And let this be an answer to those who would allege the fifty - six various readings of the first line of the Orlando 5 Furioso . Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting . The instinct and in- tuition ...
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... songs of all nations appear to be a sort of brief historical notices , in a strain of tumid hyperbole , of the exploits and possessions of a few pre - eminent individuals . They tell us how many battles such an one has fought , how many ...
... songs of all nations appear to be a sort of brief historical notices , in a strain of tumid hyperbole , of the exploits and possessions of a few pre - eminent individuals . They tell us how many battles such an one has fought , how many ...
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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...