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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... 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 and romances , and of ...
... 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 and romances , and of ...
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... leave of Hobbes ( who translated Homer as if on purpose to show what execrable verses could be written by a philoso- pher ) , enchanted castles and flying horses are not easily feigned , as Ariosto and Spenser feigned them ; and that ...
... leave of Hobbes ( who translated Homer as if on purpose to show what execrable verses could be written by a philoso- pher ) , enchanted castles and flying horses are not easily feigned , as Ariosto and Spenser feigned them ; and that ...
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... leaves of roses , white and red , Shall be the covering of the bed ; The curtains , vallens , tester all , Shall be the flower imperial ; And for the fringe it all along With azure hare - bells shall be hung . Of lilies shall the ...
... leaves of roses , white and red , Shall be the covering of the bed ; The curtains , vallens , tester all , Shall be the flower imperial ; And for the fringe it all along With azure hare - bells shall be hung . Of lilies shall the ...
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... leave no sense of the beautiful , and no power over its forms , unmanifested ; and verse flows as inevitably from this condition of its integrity , as other laws of proportion do from any other kind of embodiment of beauty ( say that of ...
... leave no sense of the beautiful , and no power over its forms , unmanifested ; and verse flows as inevitably from this condition of its integrity , as other laws of proportion do from any other kind of embodiment of beauty ( say that of ...
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... leave this question alone , we will present the reader with a few sufficing specimens of the difference between monotony and variety in versification , first from Pope , Dryden , and Milton , and next from Gay and Coleridge . The ...
... leave this question alone , we will present the reader with a few sufficing specimens of the difference between monotony and variety in versification , first from Pope , Dryden , and Milton , and next from Gay and Coleridge . The ...
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