Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Smith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 345 Seiten |
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... thought invidious in an Editor , who has said more of his contempo- raries than most men ; and who would gladly give specimens of the latter poets in future volumes . One of the objects indeed of this preface is to state that should the ...
... thought invidious in an Editor , who has said more of his contempo- raries than most men ; and who would gladly give specimens of the latter poets in future volumes . One of the objects indeed of this preface is to state that should the ...
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... thought , feel- ing , expression , imagination , action , character , and continuity , all in the largest amount and highest degree , is the greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye ...
... thought , feel- ing , expression , imagination , action , character , and continuity , all in the largest amount and highest degree , is the greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye ...
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... Shakspeare . It may be doubted , indeed , whether Shakspeare had bile and nightmare enough in him to have thought of such detestable horrors as those of the interchanging adversaries ( now ser- pent WHAT IS POETRY ? 11.
... Shakspeare . It may be doubted , indeed , whether Shakspeare had bile and nightmare enough in him to have thought of such detestable horrors as those of the interchanging adversaries ( now ser- pent WHAT IS POETRY ? 11.
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... thought it was that humankind Were tongue - confounded . Pass him , and say nought : For as he speaketh language known of none , So none can speak save jargon to himself . " Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so ...
... thought it was that humankind Were tongue - confounded . Pass him , and say nought : For as he speaketh language known of none , So none can speak save jargon to himself . " Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so ...
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... thought childish , made a childish mistake . His criticism is just such as a boy might pique him- self upon , who was educated on mechanical prin- ciples , and thought he had outgrown his Goody Two - shoes . With a wonderful dimness of ...
... thought childish , made a childish mistake . His criticism is just such as a boy might pique him- self upon , who was educated on mechanical prin- ciples , and thought he had outgrown his Goody Two - shoes . With a wonderful dimness of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Alken Ariel Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bound in cloth breath Caliban CHARLES DARWIN charm Chaucer Christabel Coleridge coloured dance Dante delight divine doth dreadful dream earth Edition enchanted exquisite eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fcap feeling flowers genius gentle golden grace hath head hear heart heaven Honest Man's Fortune illustrated imagination Jesuits lady light live look lord Lycidas Macbeth Mammon melancholy Milton mind moon Morpheus mortal nature never night Numbers o'er painted Painter passage passion play poem poet poetical poetry Porphyro post 8vo Priam queen reader rhyme satyrs Shakspeare sing sleep soft song soul sound Spenser spirit stanza sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine thee Theoph thine things thou art thought tion TITANIA Titian tree truth unto verse volume wanton wind wings witch wood word writing young δε
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 262 - And all their echoes, mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays...
Seite 238 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Seite 189 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Seite 340 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Seite 343 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Seite 247 - Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Seite 339 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Seite 265 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Seite 248 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Seite 286 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.