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 & Company, 1883 - 315 Seiten |
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... equal , perhaps , in point of invention , to Shakspeare's Ariel and Caliban ; though poetry may grudge to prose the discovery of a Winged Woman , especially such as she has been described by her inventor in the story of Peter Wilkins ...
... equal , perhaps , in point of invention , to Shakspeare's Ariel and Caliban ; though poetry may grudge to prose the discovery of a Winged Woman , especially such as she has been described by her inventor in the story of Peter Wilkins ...
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... equal perfection . A whole fairy poem of his writing will be found in the present volume . See also his famous description of Queen Mab and her equipage , in Romeo and Juliet : Her waggon - spokes made of long - spinners ' legs ; The ...
... equal perfection . A whole fairy poem of his writing will be found in the present volume . See also his famous description of Queen Mab and her equipage , in Romeo and Juliet : Her waggon - spokes made of long - spinners ' legs ; The ...
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... equal to that of the one describing the hermitage , and not the less so for being less varied both in pauses and in vowels , the subject demanding a greater monotony . A poetical reader need hardly be told , that he should humour such ...
... equal to that of the one describing the hermitage , and not the less so for being less varied both in pauses and in vowels , the subject demanding a greater monotony . A poetical reader need hardly be told , that he should humour such ...
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... equal peers ; His snowy front , curled with golden hairs , Like Phoebus ' face adorn'd with sunny rays , Divinely shone ; and two sharp winged shears , Decked with diverse plumes , like painted jays , Were fixed at his back to cut his ...
... equal peers ; His snowy front , curled with golden hairs , Like Phoebus ' face adorn'd with sunny rays , Divinely shone ; and two sharp winged shears , Decked with diverse plumes , like painted jays , Were fixed at his back to cut his ...
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... and the lapse of the two concluding verses , are equal , as a study , to anything in Spenser . * My halcyon's bill : The halcyon is the figure on the vane . A VISION OF HELEN . She passes between two Cupids MARLOWE . 127.
... and the lapse of the two concluding verses , are equal , as a study , to anything in Spenser . * My halcyon's bill : The halcyon is the figure on the vane . A VISION OF HELEN . She passes between two Cupids MARLOWE . 127.
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Agnes alliteration angels Ariel Ariosto Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson breath Caliban charm Chaucer Christabel Coleridge dance Dante Decker delight divine doth dreadful dream earth enchanted exquisite eyes fair fairy Fairy Queen fancy feeling fire flowers garden genius gentle Geta golden goodly grace hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Hecate hence imagination lady light live look lord Lycidas Macbeth Mammon melancholy Milton moon Morpheus mortal nature never night o'er OBERON painted Painter passage passion play poem poet poetical poetry Porphyro pray Priam Proserpina Queen reader rhyme round Shakspeare sing sleep soft song soul sound Spenser spirit sprite stanza sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears thee Theoph thine things thou art thought TITANIA Titian tree truth unto verse versification voice wanton wind wings witch wood word writing young δὲ καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 285 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 227 - Ay me, I fondly dream, Had ye been there! — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Seite 250 - The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.
Seite 304 - 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 223 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Seite 228 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood. But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the Herald of the Sea, That came in Neptune's plea.
Seite 229 - Last came, and last did go The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain) ; He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies...
Seite 214 - 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 220 - But first and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night...
Seite 141 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...