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 sider |
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... delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the highest ...
... delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the highest ...
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... delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the remotest imaginations of the poets may often be found to have the closest ...
... delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the remotest imaginations of the poets may often be found to have the closest ...
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... delights as much to people nature with smiling ideal sympathies , as wit does to bring antipathies together , and make them strike light on absurdity . Fancy , however , is not incapable of sympathy with Imagination . She is often found ...
... delights as much to people nature with smiling ideal sympathies , as wit does to bring antipathies together , and make them strike light on absurdity . Fancy , however , is not incapable of sympathy with Imagination . She is often found ...
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... delighted equally to rule and to obey . Verse is the final proof to the poet that his mastery over his art is complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ...
... delighted equally to rule and to obey . Verse is the final proof to the poet that his mastery over his art is complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ...
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... delightful . Their greatness proves itself by the same truth of nature , and sustained power , though in a different way ... delight ; and as the former keep you perpetually alive to thought or passion , so from the latter you receive a ...
... delightful . Their greatness proves itself by the same truth of nature , and sustained power , though in a different way ... delight ; and as the former keep you perpetually alive to thought or passion , so from the latter you receive a ...
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Side 178 - And all their echoes, mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays...
Side 174 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek!
Side 166 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Side 240 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Side 180 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Side 174 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Side 179 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?
Side 21 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Side 181 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Side 173 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.