Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volúmenes1-2Leavitt, Lord and Company, 1834 - 351 páginas |
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... sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope . IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced , both in conversation and in print , more frequently than I find it easy to explain , whether I consider the fewness ...
... sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope . IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced , both in conversation and in print , more frequently than I find it easy to explain , whether I consider the fewness ...
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... sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem , to a young man , things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as ...
... sonnets and earlier poems , at once increased their influence and my enthusiasm . The great works of past ages seem , to a young man , things of another race , in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss , even as ...
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... sonnets of Mr. Bowles , twenty in number , and just then published in a quarto pamphlet , were first made known and presented to me by a school- fellow , who had quitted us for the university , and who , during the whole time that he ...
... sonnets of Mr. Bowles , twenty in number , and just then published in a quarto pamphlet , were first made known and presented to me by a school- fellow , who had quitted us for the university , and who , during the whole time that he ...
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... sonnets , & c . of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me , perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface , instead of delving in the ...
... sonnets , & c . of Mr. Bowles ! Well were it for me , perhaps , had I never relapsed into the same mental disease ; if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface , instead of delving in the ...
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... sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh , at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite and licentious . * Cowper's ...
... sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh , at the spirit of doleful egotism , and at the recurrence of favorite phrases , with the double defect of being at once trite and licentious . * Cowper's ...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vista previa limitada - 1834 |
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Página 254 - While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech, all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. While I these thoughts within myself pursued, He, having made a pause, the same discourse renewed.
Página 274 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Página 206 - 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 276 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 132 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Página 274 - By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes May meet at noontide — FEAR and trembling HOPE, SILENCE and FORESIGHT— DEATH, the skeleton, And TIME, the shadow — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 212 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 246 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 184 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Página 239 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.