Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... gives him , sometimes in a flattered likeness , sometimes in caricature , a copy of every humor and shade in his ... gives . The poet gives us the eminent experiences only , a god stepping from peak to peak , nor planting 14 POETRY AND ...
... gives him , sometimes in a flattered likeness , sometimes in caricature , a copy of every humor and shade in his ... gives . The poet gives us the eminent experiences only , a god stepping from peak to peak , nor planting 14 POETRY AND ...
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... gives a shock of agreeable surprise . The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life : the book , the landscape , or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear , but penetrated to the inward ...
... gives a shock of agreeable surprise . The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life : the book , the landscape , or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear , but penetrated to the inward ...
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... give back , not them , but a new and transcendent whole . - Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing , to pass the brute body , and search the life and reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object ...
... give back , not them , but a new and transcendent whole . - Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing , to pass the brute body , and search the life and reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object ...
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... gives a miraculous . command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment . The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him . The term ...
... gives a miraculous . command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment . The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him . The term ...
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... gives a pure pleasure . Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis . It makes us dance and sing . All men are so far poets . When people tell me they do not relish poetry , and bring me Shelley , or Aikin's Poets ...
... gives a pure pleasure . Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis . It makes us dance and sing . All men are so far poets . When people tell me they do not relish poetry , and bring me Shelley , or Aikin's Poets ...
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appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk Charles James Fox Confucius conversation death delight divine earth eloquence eternal existence experience express fact faculties fancy feel Firdousi fire force Gawain genius give Goethe Hafiz hand heard heart heaven hints human imagination immortality inspiration intellect king King Arthur laws learned live look Madame de Staël manners matter ment Merlin metonomy mind moral Nachiketas nation nature never once orator passion perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry politics religion rhyme scholar secret seen sense sentiment Shakspeare Simorg sleep society song soul speak speech spirit Swedenborg talent thee things thou thought Timur tion true truth verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole William Blake wise words write Yama Zoroaster
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Página 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 43 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Página 233 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.