The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 Seiten |
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... society , is it more reasonable , in the interests of so - called freedom of thought , to uproot a religious organisation which has from time immemorial formed part of the na- tional life ? So in the sphere of creative Ima- gination ...
... society , is it more reasonable , in the interests of so - called freedom of thought , to uproot a religious organisation which has from time immemorial formed part of the na- tional life ? So in the sphere of creative Ima- gination ...
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... society has passed from the stage of creation into that of criticism , parties develop themselves as naturally in art as they do in politics ; and all critics , con- sciously or unconsciously arraying themselves on different sides ...
... society has passed from the stage of creation into that of criticism , parties develop themselves as naturally in art as they do in politics ; and all critics , con- sciously or unconsciously arraying themselves on different sides ...
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... unassailable . It is not a question what the poet would like to do , or what he ought to do , with his imagination , but what the inexorable laws of Nature and Society will allow him to do 26 ESSAY I THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
... unassailable . It is not a question what the poet would like to do , or what he ought to do , with his imagination , but what the inexorable laws of Nature and Society will allow him to do 26 ESSAY I THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
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... society to have produced ' The Eneid , ' ' The Divine Comedy , ' or ' Para- dise Lost . ' The reason is obvious . For the making of all great poetry not only is abundant imagination and sentiment required , but judg- ment , knowledge of ...
... society to have produced ' The Eneid , ' ' The Divine Comedy , ' or ' Para- dise Lost . ' The reason is obvious . For the making of all great poetry not only is abundant imagination and sentiment required , but judg- ment , knowledge of ...
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... society will bring him nearer to some ideal state existing in his own imagination. Life, according to the Conservative belief, on the other hand, is growth, and all real growth must be con- tinuous. Conservatism, in whatever sphere ...
... society will bring him nearer to some ideal state existing in his own imagination. Life, according to the Conservative belief, on the other hand, is growth, and all real growth must be con- tinuous. Conservatism, in whatever sphere ...
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Absalom and Achitophel action ancient Arnold artistic ballad beautiful Byron character Chaucer Childe Harold Christabel Coleridge and Keats common composition Conservatism Conservative criticism Dryden and Pope eighteenth century element endeavoured English Literature English poetry expression Faery Queen fancy feeling feudal French Revolution genius Gray heart Homer ideal ideas images imagination and harmony impulse individual influence inspiration instinct judgment kind language Liberal Movement liberty literary lyrical Lyrical Ballads manner matter ment metre metrical writing Milton mind modern moral Movement in English nature noble objects Paradise Lost passage passion perception philosophical pleasure poems poet poetical diction political present century principles produced prose qualities reader reality religion says Scott sense seventeenth century Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Siege of Corinth social society Spenser sphere spirit style sublime Swinburne taste things thought tion tradition truth verse Virgil WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE word Wordsworth worth's
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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.