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?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in our old English ballads ...
... genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in our old English ballads ...
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... genius ! that can stretch its hand out of the wastes of time , thousands of years back , and touch our eyelids with tears . In these passages there is not a word which a man of the most matter - of - fact understanding might not have ...
... genius ! that can stretch its hand out of the wastes of time , thousands of years back , and touch our eyelids with tears . In these passages there is not a word which a man of the most matter - of - fact understanding might not have ...
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... genius which tended to make him a poet , and one of no mean order ; and yet it was of as ungenerous and low a sort as was compatible with so lofty an affinity ; and this is the reason why it stopped where it did . He had a craving after ...
... genius which tended to make him a poet , and one of no mean order ; and yet it was of as ungenerous and low a sort as was compatible with so lofty an affinity ; and this is the reason why it stopped where it did . He had a craving after ...
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... genius . According to Boccaccio , Demogorgon ( Spirit Earthworker ) was the great deity of the rustical Arcadians , and the creator of all things out of brute matter . He describes him as a pale and sordid - looking wretch , inhabiting ...
... genius . According to Boccaccio , Demogorgon ( Spirit Earthworker ) was the great deity of the rustical Arcadians , and the creator of all things out of brute matter . He describes him as a pale and sordid - looking wretch , inhabiting ...
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... Genius of the Wood ( the speaker ) after his day's duty , " when the world is locked up in sleep and silence . " * Glode , is glided . If Chaucer's contemporary had written often thus , his name would have been as famous . Then listen I ...
... Genius of the Wood ( the speaker ) after his day's duty , " when the world is locked up in sleep and silence . " * Glode , is glided . If Chaucer's contemporary had written often thus , his name would have been as famous . Then listen I ...
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