Prose Works from the Original EditionsChatto and Windus, 1888 |
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... less closely to that from which this highest delight results : but the diversity is not sufficiently marked , as that its gradations should be sensible , except in those instances where the predomi- nance of this faculty of ...
... less closely to that from which this highest delight results : but the diversity is not sufficiently marked , as that its gradations should be sensible , except in those instances where the predomi- nance of this faculty of ...
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... less indispensable to the communication of its influence , than the words themselves , without reference to that peculiar order . Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover ...
... less indispensable to the communication of its influence , than the words themselves , without reference to that peculiar order . Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover ...
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... less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends , and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind , and pours itself forth together with it into the universal ...
... less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends , and then bursts the circumference of the reader's mind , and pours itself forth together with it into the universal ...
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... less specious , has deified its peculiar errors ; Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semibarbarous age ; and Self - deceit is the veiled image of unknown evil , before which luxury and satiety lie prostrate . But a poet ...
... less specious , has deified its peculiar errors ; Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semibarbarous age ; and Self - deceit is the veiled image of unknown evil , before which luxury and satiety lie prostrate . But a poet ...
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... less intense , as Euripides , Lucan , Tasso , Spenser , have frequently affected a moral aim , and the effect of their poetry is diminished in exact proportion to the degree in which they compel us to advert to this purpose . Homer and ...
... less intense , as Euripides , Lucan , Tasso , Spenser , have frequently affected a moral aim , and the effect of their poetry is diminished in exact proportion to the degree in which they compel us to advert to this purpose . Homer and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 11 - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar; it reproduces all that it represents, and the impersonations clothed in its Elysian light stand thenceforward in the minds of those who have once contemplated them as memorials of that gentle and exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists.
Página 32 - Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results: but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.
Página 38 - 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 32 - Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science , must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought...
Página 35 - It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.
Página 34 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters...
Página 30 - We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we have more scientific and economical knowledge than can be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies. The poetry in these systems of thought, is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at least, what is wiser and better than what men...
Página 33 - I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean no more than a careful observation of the inspired moments, and an artificial connection of the spaces between their suggestions, by the intertexture of conventional expressions...
Página 31 - The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature.
Página 6 - And this springs from the nature itself of language, which is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than colour, form, or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation.