Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 ; Complete in One VolumeHarper Brothers, 1840 - 324 Seiten |
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... highest office of poetry , it is poetry , as Echo in the golden my- thology of Greece remained a nymph , even after ... high - raised phantasy , " That undisturbed song of pure consent , Aye sung around the sapphire - colour'd throne ...
... highest office of poetry , it is poetry , as Echo in the golden my- thology of Greece remained a nymph , even after ... high - raised phantasy , " That undisturbed song of pure consent , Aye sung around the sapphire - colour'd throne ...
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... highest pleasure which the art can communicate ; and in this respect portrait - painting ( however disparaged ) is the highest point of the art itself , -being at once the most real , intellectual , and imaginative . A poem is a ...
... highest pleasure which the art can communicate ; and in this respect portrait - painting ( however disparaged ) is the highest point of the art itself , -being at once the most real , intellectual , and imaginative . A poem is a ...
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... highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things greater and dearer than themselves . This , of ...
... highest ingredient of our delight in beholding them , -unless by local , historical , or personal associations , the trees , the streams , the hills , or the buildings remind us of things greater and dearer than themselves . This , of ...
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... highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than in painting , music , and even poetry itself . Nothing in it is truly excellent but that which ...
... highest attempts of the highest minds , in the highest of the imitative arts . It follows that mediocrity is less tolerable in sculpture than in painting , music , and even poetry itself . Nothing in it is truly excellent but that which ...
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... High actions , and high passions best describing : The first of these assertions will probably be admitted , 34 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
... High actions , and high passions best describing : The first of these assertions will probably be admitted , 34 THE PRE - EMINENCE OF POETRY .
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admiration Æneid affecting amid ancient beauty blank verse character circumstances colour composition death delight diction Dryden dwell earth Egyptians eloquence employed English equally excellence express exquisite Faerie Queene fancy feel genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination immortality invention Joanna Baillie kind labours Lamech language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron memory ment metre Milton mind modern moral nature never once original painting Paradise Lost passage passions peculiar perfect perpetual Pisistratus pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme Robert Burns Roman Rome Saracens scarcely scene sculpture sentiments song soul sound Spenserian stanza spirit splendour stanzas stars strains style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought tion tongue touch truth uncon verse Virgil whole words writing
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 225 - 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 ? 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.
Seite 259 - Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
Seite 167 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Seite 78 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Seite 234 - Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast Written.
Seite 173 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods. — The princes applaud with a furious joy : And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy...
Seite 212 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Seite 135 - 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, [sword.