Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Band 2Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... youth has relinquished its reckless humours or its ideal and half - fantastic elevation . It is before the social prin- ciple has become merged in the selfish instinct that the popular feeling so necessary for all true art , and so ...
... youth has relinquished its reckless humours or its ideal and half - fantastic elevation . It is before the social prin- ciple has become merged in the selfish instinct that the popular feeling so necessary for all true art , and so ...
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... youth and sex . She has in a singular degree that charm which consists in the absence of self- asserting or disproportionate qualities ; and we grow to understand her not a little through the impression she makes on others . The scholar ...
... youth and sex . She has in a singular degree that charm which consists in the absence of self- asserting or disproportionate qualities ; and we grow to understand her not a little through the impression she makes on others . The scholar ...
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... youth , The mellow murmur falls - but finds the sense Dulled by distemper ; shall I say — by time ? Enough in action has my life been spent Through the past decade , to rebate the edge Of early sensibility . The sun 1 P. 137 . Rides ...
... youth , The mellow murmur falls - but finds the sense Dulled by distemper ; shall I say — by time ? Enough in action has my life been spent Through the past decade , to rebate the edge Of early sensibility . The sun 1 P. 137 . Rides ...
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... youth not exempt from offences which in later life he so easily suspects in others : —a lover of science and of art in an age when the former was accounted for witchcraft , and the latter for paganism : -while young attaching himself to ...
... youth not exempt from offences which in later life he so easily suspects in others : —a lover of science and of art in an age when the former was accounted for witchcraft , and the latter for paganism : -while young attaching himself to ...
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... youth ; that face I know , Yet know not whose it is . Death of my soul ! It is my wife . Montargis . Oh no , my Lord , no , no , Burgundy . It cannot be her Highness . Why , no , it cannot . For my wife is chaste , Cannot - cannot- And ...
... youth ; that face I know , Yet know not whose it is . Death of my soul ! It is my wife . Montargis . Oh no , my Lord , no , no , Burgundy . It cannot be her Highness . Why , no , it cannot . For my wife is chaste , Cannot - cannot- And ...
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admiration Agnosticism Aloysius ancient Artemidora aspirations beauty believe belongs Burgundy Cassinel character chiefly Christ Christian classical creature delight divine drama dramatists Duke of Burgundy Dunstan earth elevation Elgiva English poetry Epicurean eternal exist faculty Faith fancy Fiordeliza genius gift grace Greek mythology Greek poetry hand harmony heart heaven higher human ideal imagination infinite inspiration instinct intellectual Keats knowledge Landor's Laodamia Leolf less light lives Lord man's mind modern Montargis moral mountains nature never noble objects once Pagan passion pathos perfect Philip van Artevelde philosophy play poem poet poetic possessed prayer reality reason region religion religious remarked revealed reverence Rosalba Ruggiero Saints scene sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley Silisco song sonnet sophisms soul Spadone spirit strength supernatural sympathies Taylor's thee Theism things thou thought tion Tragedy true truth versatility virtue voice wonderful words Wordsworth Wulfstan youth
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Seite 116 - I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Seite 180 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love...
Seite 120 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Seite 141 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
Seite 120 - Sublime; which is a thing per se, and stands alone,) it is not itself — it has no self — It is everything and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.
Seite 116 - Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight.
Seite 123 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Seite 123 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood...
Seite 182 - ... with it : that is, be virtuously related to it. If he have not the justice to put down his own .selfishness at every turn, the courage to stand by the dangerous-true at every turn, how shall he know ? His virtues, all of them, will lie recorded in his knowledge. Nature, with her truth, remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous for ever a sealed book : what such can know of Nature is mean, superficial, small ; for the uses of the day merely.
Seite 243 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.