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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... verse surely , both for feeling and music . The very smoothness and gentleness of the limbs is in the series of the let- ter l's . I am aware of nothing of the kind surpassing the most lovely inclusion of physical beauty in moral ...
... verse surely , both for feeling and music . The very smoothness and gentleness of the limbs is in the series of the let- ter l's . I am aware of nothing of the kind surpassing the most lovely inclusion of physical beauty in moral ...
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... 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 just makes all the difference . For proof , see the accounts of Spenser's en ...
... 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 just makes all the difference . For proof , see the accounts of Spenser's en ...
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... verse ought to be modulated , and one - ness of impression diversely produced , it has been contended by some , that Poetry need not be written in verse at all ; that prose is as good a me- dium , provided poetry be conveyed through it ...
... verse ought to be modulated , and one - ness of impression diversely produced , it has been contended by some , that Poetry need not be written in verse at all ; that prose is as good a me- dium , provided poetry be conveyed through it ...
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... verse ; and that , if he were unable to do so , he would not , and could not , deserve his title . Verse to the true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same enthusiasm as ...
... verse ; and that , if he were unable to do so , he would not , and could not , deserve his title . Verse to the true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same enthusiasm as ...
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... verse , in the original . Mr. Hazlitt has said a good word for those prose enlargements of some fine old song , which are known by the name of Ossian ; and in passages they deserve what he said ; but he judiciously abstained from saying ...
... verse , in the original . Mr. Hazlitt has said a good word for those prose enlargements of some fine old song , which are known by the name of Ossian ; and in passages they deserve what he said ; but he judiciously abstained from saying ...
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