The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 Seiten |
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... sense . By ' Liberalism ' I mean the disposition which leads men to seek above all things the enlarge- ment of individual liberty : by ' Conservatism ' that which makes them desire primarily to pre- serve the continuity of national ...
... sense . By ' Liberalism ' I mean the disposition which leads men to seek above all things the enlarge- ment of individual liberty : by ' Conservatism ' that which makes them desire primarily to pre- serve the continuity of national ...
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... sense be masters of the art of versification , Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry , they are classics of our prose . ' Surely when a critic of great eminence thinks it necessary to give such advice to a pre- sumably large ...
... sense be masters of the art of versification , Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry , they are classics of our prose . ' Surely when a critic of great eminence thinks it necessary to give such advice to a pre- sumably large ...
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... sense , but that to any man of plain mind it can be shown to be palpable falsehood . For sup- posing that the two lines- For old , unhappy , far off things , . ⚫ And battles long ago , had been all of the poem which was in existence ...
... sense , but that to any man of plain mind it can be shown to be palpable falsehood . For sup- posing that the two lines- For old , unhappy , far off things , . ⚫ And battles long ago , had been all of the poem which was in existence ...
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... sense , as meaning , that is to say , ' poetical sentiment , ' or the raw stuff out of which poems are made . And using it in this sense , I confess I do not understand how it is possible to dispute the truth of Macaulay's proposition ...
... sense , as meaning , that is to say , ' poetical sentiment , ' or the raw stuff out of which poems are made . And using it in this sense , I confess I do not understand how it is possible to dispute the truth of Macaulay's proposition ...
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... sense attaching to the word ' poetry . ' When Macaulay says that an en- lightened age will have little poetry , ' he really means that it will have no widespread imagina- tive feeling . But the only just and precise sense in which the ...
... sense attaching to the word ' poetry . ' When Macaulay says that an en- lightened age will have little poetry , ' he really means that it will have no widespread imagina- tive feeling . But the only just and precise sense in which the ...
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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.