Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volúmenes1-2Leavitt, Lord and Company, 1834 - 351 páginas |
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... latter , the most obvious thoughts in language the most fantastic and arbitrary . Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion , and passionate flow of poetry , to the subtleties of intellect , and to the starts of wit ; the moderns to ...
... latter , the most obvious thoughts in language the most fantastic and arbitrary . Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion , and passionate flow of poetry , to the subtleties of intellect , and to the starts of wit ; the moderns to ...
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... , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thomson unmeasurably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . The second , on low , creeping language and thoughts BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 21.
... , and the harmony of blank verse , Cowper leaves Thomson unmeasurably below him ; yet still I feel the latter to have been the born poet . The second , on low , creeping language and thoughts BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA . 21.
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... latter must impress their preconceptions on the world without , in order to present them back to their own view with the satisfying degree of clearness , distinctness , and individu- ality . These , in tranquil times , are formed to ...
... latter must impress their preconceptions on the world without , in order to present them back to their own view with the satisfying degree of clearness , distinctness , and individu- ality . These , in tranquil times , are formed to ...
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... latter days . These causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occa- sional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability ...
... latter days . These causes have diffused over all his compositions " a melancholy grace , " and have drawn forth occa- sional strains , the more pathetic from their gentleness . But no where do we find the least trace of irritability ...
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... latter day , had his scorners and detractors ; and even in his day of youth and hope , that he had enemies would have been unknown to us , had they not been likewise the enemies of his country . I am well aware , that in advanced stages ...
... latter day , had his scorners and detractors ; and even in his day of youth and hope , that he had enemies would have been unknown to us , had they not been likewise the enemies of his country . I am well aware , that in advanced stages ...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vista previa limitada - 1834 |
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Página 254 - While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech, all troubled me: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. While I these thoughts within myself pursued, He, having made a pause, the same discourse renewed.
Página 274 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Página 206 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 276 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 132 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Página 274 - By sheddings from the pinal umbrage tinged Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes May meet at noontide — FEAR and trembling HOPE, SILENCE and FORESIGHT— DEATH, the skeleton, And TIME, the shadow — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Página 212 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 246 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 184 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Página 239 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.