Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... bears sway , it will be found . that nature has pronounced woe upon him who will brood over his own self . Eat not thy heart , was the advice of Pythagoras long before Christianity came to teach and to train us in the same doctrine ...
... bears sway , it will be found . that nature has pronounced woe upon him who will brood over his own self . Eat not thy heart , was the advice of Pythagoras long before Christianity came to teach and to train us in the same doctrine ...
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... bears to a sultan . It wields the influence which rightfully belongs to the higher power , and which the higher power is in our present condition too weak or too sluggish to wield for itself . Between that power and our lower powers ...
... bears to a sultan . It wields the influence which rightfully belongs to the higher power , and which the higher power is in our present condition too weak or too sluggish to wield for itself . Between that power and our lower powers ...
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... bear the fruits of poesy . Perhaps the reason is not that they are of a gro- velling nature , but that , from their being so customary , we pay little attention to them . And if so , we are bound in all modesty not to deny that those ...
... bear the fruits of poesy . Perhaps the reason is not that they are of a gro- velling nature , but that , from their being so customary , we pay little attention to them . And if so , we are bound in all modesty not to deny that those ...
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... bear one skimming at full speed . Let the mind be arrested as it glances at lightning - pace over such a passage ; and let us sup- pose it still confiding and pleased , but its heat much lowered and its speed much lessened : wherein ...
... bear one skimming at full speed . Let the mind be arrested as it glances at lightning - pace over such a passage ; and let us sup- pose it still confiding and pleased , but its heat much lowered and its speed much lessened : wherein ...
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... bears away the palm . And if his own critical insight will not at once assure him of the doctrine , perhaps the following argu- ments may have some weight . I. II . Dramatic art ; Epic art ; III . Lyrical art . Modern art ; Antique ...
... bears away the palm . And if his own critical insight will not at once assure him of the doctrine , perhaps the following argu- ments may have some weight . I. II . Dramatic art ; Epic art ; III . Lyrical art . Modern art ; Antique ...
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action activity Æschylus Aristotle artist Bacon beautiful believe belongs blank verse called chiefly Christ Christian classical Clement of Rome comparison couplet critics Divine doctrine doubt drama dramatic art dramatist Dugald Stewart employed endeavours English epic Euripides Euroclydon expression fact faculty faith former Freedom genius give Greek happiness heart heaven Hebrew Homer human idea Iliad imagery imagination imitative Immortality instinct Jeremy Collier kinds of poesy language latter law of poetry least less look lyrical manner means metaphor metre mind modern narrative nature never object perhaps philosopher pleasure plurality poem poet poetic feeling present prose reality reason regard remarkable rhyme romantic seen self-consciousness sense Shakespere shown simile simply Sir Philip Sidney song Sophocles soul speak spirit stanza tell theory things Thomas à Kempis thought tion true truly truth uncon utterance whole words Wordsworth
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Página 144 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Página 203 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 187 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 293 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Página 106 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página 193 - The stars of heaven a course are taught Too high above our human thought ; Ye may be found if ye are sought, And, as we gaze, we know. Ye dwell beside our paths and homes, Our paths of sin, our homes of sorrow; And guilty man, where'er he roams, Your innocent mirth may borrow. The birds of air before us fleet, They cannot brook our shame to meet ; But we may taste your solace sweet, And come again to-morrow. Ye fearless in your nests abide ; Nor may we scorn, too proudly wise, Your silent lessons,...
Página 54 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved.
Página 34 - My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Página 37 - Of honourable gain; these fields, these hills Which were his living Being, even more Than his own blood — what could they less ? had laid Strong hold on his affections, were to him A pleasurable feeling of blind love, The pleasure which there is in life itself. On the other hand, in the poems which are pitched in a lower key, as the HARRY GILL...