Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper, 1833 - 324 páginas |
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... excellence . The poetical reputation of Mr. Montgomery has long been very great ; and his appointment as one of the lecturers before the London Institution , was equally honourable to himself and to the taste and judgment of the ...
... excellence . The poetical reputation of Mr. Montgomery has long been very great ; and his appointment as one of the lecturers before the London Institution , was equally honourable to himself and to the taste and judgment of the ...
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... excellence most per- nicious when perverted . But pagan poetry , with all its sins , has survived pagan philosophy with all its merits .. Permanence of Poetry . " Poetry , the most perfect form of literature , which is all that I ...
... excellence most per- nicious when perverted . But pagan poetry , with all its sins , has survived pagan philosophy with all its merits .. Permanence of Poetry . " Poetry , the most perfect form of literature , which is all that I ...
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... excellence may be clearly discovered , and where , at the same time , all their homeliness and commonplace associations are excluded . This is poetry to the eye . There is also poetry to the ear . Hearken to it . The Poetical in Sounds ...
... excellence may be clearly discovered , and where , at the same time , all their homeliness and commonplace associations are excluded . This is poetry to the eye . There is also poetry to the ear . Hearken to it . The Poetical in Sounds ...
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... excellence , or some happy incidence , gives it a new and unexpected character . Hence , in conversation , in eloquence , in history , — indeed , in every kind of discourse , whether oral or written ( at proper seasons ) , - the themes ...
... excellence , or some happy incidence , gives it a new and unexpected character . Hence , in conversation , in eloquence , in history , — indeed , in every kind of discourse , whether oral or written ( at proper seasons ) , - the themes ...
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... excellence and unparalleled perfection of the sonnet . Our contemporary Mr. Wordsworth ( whatever may have been done before him ) has redeemed the English language from the opprobrium of not admit- ting the legitimate sonnet in its ...
... excellence and unparalleled perfection of the sonnet . Our contemporary Mr. Wordsworth ( whatever may have been done before him ) has redeemed the English language from the opprobrium of not admit- ting the legitimate sonnet in its ...
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Página 28 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 263 - Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Página 29 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Página 225 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Página 243 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Página 13 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 227 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 86 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Página 139 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 119 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.