Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and OpinionsLeavitt, Lord and Company, 1834 - 351 páginas |
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... tion at his own cleverness . Our genuine admiration of a great poet is a continuous under - current of feeling ; it is every where present , but seldom any where as a separate excitement . I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be ...
... tion at his own cleverness . Our genuine admiration of a great poet is a continuous under - current of feeling ; it is every where present , but seldom any where as a separate excitement . I was wont boldly to affirm , that it would be ...
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... tion of the second number of the monthly magazine , under the name of NEHEMIAH HIGGENBOTTOM , I contributed three sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh , at the spirit of doleful egotism , and ...
... tion of the second number of the monthly magazine , under the name of NEHEMIAH HIGGENBOTTOM , I contributed three sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natured laugh , at the spirit of doleful egotism , and ...
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... tion works of polite literature are commonly perused , not only by the mass of readers , but by men of the first rate ability , till some accident or chance * discussion have aroused their attention , and * In the course of my lectures ...
... tion works of polite literature are commonly perused , not only by the mass of readers , but by men of the first rate ability , till some accident or chance * discussion have aroused their attention , and * In the course of my lectures ...
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... tion is in due proportion to their want of sense and sensibility ; men who , being first scribblers from idleness and ignorance , next become libellers from envy and malevolence , have been able to drive a successful trade in the ...
... tion is in due proportion to their want of sense and sensibility ; men who , being first scribblers from idleness and ignorance , next become libellers from envy and malevolence , have been able to drive a successful trade in the ...
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... tion and publicity I happen to possess . For when the name of an individual has occurred so frequently , in so many works , for so great a length of time , the readers of these works , ( which with a shelf or two of BEAUTIES , ELEGANT ...
... tion and publicity I happen to possess . For when the name of an individual has occurred so frequently , in so many works , for so great a length of time , the readers of these works , ( which with a shelf or two of BEAUTIES , ELEGANT ...
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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 172 - The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Página 179 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings th^. whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and, (as it were,) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 27 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
Página 173 - Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Página 276 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 184 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace...
Página 12 - ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Página 275 - 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 further 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.
Página 269 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we are pressed by heavy laws ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.
Página 246 - He looked — 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 did he read Unutterable love.