The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 Seiten |
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... mind . Art is the ideal reflection of national life , and owes much of its development to the social and political causes that determine the course of a people's history . Even , therefore , if I had simply intended to illustrate from ...
... mind . Art is the ideal reflection of national life , and owes much of its development to the social and political causes that determine the course of a people's history . Even , therefore , if I had simply intended to illustrate from ...
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William John Courthope. festations of a spirit working in the mind of the people , which has assumed a particular aspect in politics , but which has produced analogous results in the spheres of religion and art ? So , at least , it has ...
William John Courthope. festations of a spirit working in the mind of the people , which has assumed a particular aspect in politics , but which has produced analogous results in the spheres of religion and art ? So , at least , it has ...
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William John Courthope. theories of those who , like Wordsworth , make the individual mind the standard of art , and / defy the rules of tradition and convention , than in the inflexibility of critics such as Gifford , who are inclined ...
William John Courthope. theories of those who , like Wordsworth , make the individual mind the standard of art , and / defy the rules of tradition and convention , than in the inflexibility of critics such as Gifford , who are inclined ...
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... mind of that person . ' In spite of this tremendous affirmation , I venture to think not only that what Mr. Swin- burne calls the ' certainty of truth ' will be im- perceptible to many persons not devoid of poetic sense , but that to ...
... mind of that person . ' In spite of this tremendous affirmation , I venture to think not only that what Mr. Swin- burne calls the ' certainty of truth ' will be im- perceptible to many persons not devoid of poetic sense , but that to ...
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... expressing the images which the mind conceives , and therefore there will always be something in all imaginative writing which C escapes analysis . But if Mr. Swinburne means to assert ESSAY I 17 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... expressing the images which the mind conceives , and therefore there will always be something in all imaginative writing which C escapes analysis . But if Mr. Swinburne means to assert ESSAY I 17 IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Seite 98 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 73 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Seite 74 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us — an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel...
Seite 74 - For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.
Seite 145 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Seite 157 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Seite 180 - O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...
Seite 80 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Seite 45 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Seite 187 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.