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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Side 42
... happy word " sprung , " in the following passage from Ben Jonson , was suggested by it ; but then the poet must have had the feeling in him . Let our trumpets sound , And cleave both air and 42 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
... happy word " sprung , " in the following passage from Ben Jonson , was suggested by it ; but then the poet must have had the feeling in him . Let our trumpets sound , And cleave both air and 42 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
Side 45
... happy . And luckily , delightfulness is not incompatible with greatness , willing soever as men may be in their present imperfect state to set the power to subjugate above the power to please . Truth , of any great kind whatsoever ...
... happy . And luckily , delightfulness is not incompatible with greatness , willing soever as men may be in their present imperfect state to set the power to subjugate above the power to please . Truth , of any great kind whatsoever ...
Side 60
... happy pause in the last line , and then a strong accent on the word far , put us in possession of all the remoteness of the scene ; -and it is im- proved , if we make a similar pause at heard : No other noise , or people's troublous ...
... happy pause in the last line , and then a strong accent on the word far , put us in possession of all the remoteness of the scene ; -and it is im- proved , if we make a similar pause at heard : No other noise , or people's troublous ...
Side 63
... happy is before thee laid . " " Certes " ( said he ) " I n'ill thine offered grace , 14 Nor to be made so happy do intend ; Another bliss before mine eyes I place , Another happiness , another end : To them that list , these base ...
... happy is before thee laid . " " Certes " ( said he ) " I n'ill thine offered grace , 14 Nor to be made so happy do intend ; Another bliss before mine eyes I place , Another happiness , another end : To them that list , these base ...
Side 74
... happy to wander so much from his point . If he is tempted to expatiate , every word is to the purpose . Poetry and painting indeed would in Spenser be identical , if they could be so ; and they are more so , too , than it has latterly ...
... happy to wander so much from his point . If he is tempted to expatiate , every word is to the purpose . Poetry and painting indeed would in Spenser be identical , if they could be so ; and they are more so , too , than it has latterly ...
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Achilles alliteration angels Archimago Ariel Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Caliban called canto Character charm Chaucer Christabel Coleridge Correggio CRITICAL NOTICE dance Dante delight Demogorgon divine doth dreadful dream earth enchanted exquisite eyes Faerie Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy feeling flowers garden genius gentle goddess golden goodly grace greatest hath head hear heart heaven Homer imagination Jove lady light live locks look lord Lycidas Macbeth Mammon melancholy Milton mind moon Morpheus nature never night o'er Orlando Furioso Orlando Innamorato Ovid painted Painter passage passion perhaps poem poet poetical poetry Priam Proserpine Queene reader rhyme round satyrs sense Shakspeare sing sleep soft song soul sound Spenser spirit sprites stanza sweet Tamburlaine thee thine things thought TITANIA tree truth unto verse versification wanton wind wings witch wood words writing δε
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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.