A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and NotesGinn, 1890 - 82 páginas |
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... whole confusion will by magic cease ; the broken and shapeless notions will cohere and crystallize into a bright and true theory . BAGEHOT , Literary Studies , 2. 339–341 . Nay , I doubt whether his delightful Essays and Letters , which ...
... whole confusion will by magic cease ; the broken and shapeless notions will cohere and crystallize into a bright and true theory . BAGEHOT , Literary Studies , 2. 339–341 . Nay , I doubt whether his delightful Essays and Letters , which ...
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... whole transcendental movement in England and America , with the train of beneficial effects by which it was to be ac- companied . In a word and a figure , if Sidney is mounted on a strong and active steed , it is still of mortal strain ...
... whole transcendental movement in England and America , with the train of beneficial effects by which it was to be ac- companied . In a word and a figure , if Sidney is mounted on a strong and active steed , it is still of mortal strain ...
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... whole art of the lyric poet consists . Whether gods or men form his subject , praise is his exclu- sive concern . Hence it is deep and continuous reflection , not ecstasy of any sort , which will conduct him to his goal . If ecstasy has ...
... whole art of the lyric poet consists . Whether gods or men form his subject , praise is his exclu- sive concern . Hence it is deep and continuous reflection , not ecstasy of any sort , which will conduct him to his goal . If ecstasy has ...
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... whole centuries ; and how individual men have , by their expres- sions , imprinted a stamp upon their age , which has remained uneffaced , and has operated beneficially upon many succeed- ing generations . " But against this must be ...
... whole centuries ; and how individual men have , by their expres- sions , imprinted a stamp upon their age , which has remained uneffaced , and has operated beneficially upon many succeed- ing generations . " But against this must be ...
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... whole . Reason respects the differences , and imagination the similitudes of things . Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent , as the body to the spirit , as the shadow to the sub- stance . Shado / Reason is to imag ...
... whole . Reason respects the differences , and imagination the similitudes of things . Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent , as the body to the spirit , as the shadow to the sub- stance . Shado / Reason is to imag ...
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action Æschylus age of gold age of poetry ancient Apollonius Rhodius barbarism Bavius beauty become better cæsura Celtic nations character civil Codrus comedy compose corruption creations creative cyclic poets Dante Defense of Poesy delight divine drama effect elements epic essay eternal evil expression genius Goethe grave novels Greek harmony Hence highest history of Herodotus Homer human nature ideal imagination imitation immortal influence inspiration intellectual intense iron age King Lear knowledge language less literature Livy Lord Bacon Mævius manners melody Milton mind modern poetry moral Muse never Nonnus object observation pain Paradise passion Peacock perfection perhaps Petrarch philosophers Pindar Plato pleasure poem poetical faculty poetical impressions portion principle produced prophets prose reason relation religion rhapsodist rhythm Roman selectest sense Shakespeare Shelley Sidney society songs soul spirit splendor things thought tion true truth universal verse whilst words writers ΙΟ
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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...