The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 Seiten |
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... gives us the truest criticism of life , and that we ought , therefore , to be always studying the best poetical ... give you any infallible rules , but perhaps the best way is to carry in your head / certain lines and passages about ...
... gives us the truest criticism of life , and that we ought , therefore , to be always studying the best poetical ... give you any infallible rules , but perhaps the best way is to carry in your head / certain lines and passages about ...
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... gives a number of such lines as examples , about which it is only necessary to say that , being selected by Mr ... give such advice to a pre- sumably large number of readers the art of poetry X must have fallen upon evil days . For ...
... gives a number of such lines as examples , about which it is only necessary to say that , being selected by Mr ... give such advice to a pre- sumably large number of readers the art of poetry X must have fallen upon evil days . For ...
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... gives the title to this paper . The spectacle of critics emulously endeavouring to secure precedence in the poetical Pantheon for Byron , or Words- worth , or Shelley , or Keats , ought to remind us that two generations ago three of ...
... gives the title to this paper . The spectacle of critics emulously endeavouring to secure precedence in the poetical Pantheon for Byron , or Words- worth , or Shelley , or Keats , ought to remind us that two generations ago three of ...
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... gives a handle to anyone who chooses to reason in this captious and superficial manner . Such an opportunity is obviously offered in the following typical passage : The evidence of religion then being admitted real , those who object ...
... gives a handle to anyone who chooses to reason in this captious and superficial manner . Such an opportunity is obviously offered in the following typical passage : The evidence of religion then being admitted real , those who object ...
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... give their adversaries wrong ideas as to their belief . Jeremy Taylor , in his ' Liberty of Prophesying , ' employs a purely sceptical line of argument in order to establish the right of freely interpreting Scripture . Locke , in his ...
... give their adversaries wrong ideas as to their belief . Jeremy Taylor , in his ' Liberty of Prophesying , ' employs a purely sceptical line of argument in order to establish the right of freely interpreting Scripture . Locke , in his ...
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Seite 37 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Seite 104 - 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 79 - 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 61 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Seite 86 - 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, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,...
Seite 151 - 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 163 - 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 13 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Seite 151 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Seite 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.