Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Bind 2Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 - 309 sider |
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... Milton as his compeer not rival . While the former darts himself forth , and passes into all the forms of human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself ...
... Milton as his compeer not rival . While the former darts himself forth , and passes into all the forms of human character and passion , the one Proteus of the fire and the flood ; the other attracts all forms and things to himself ...
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... Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of the cottager . As far then as Mr. Wordsworth in his pre- face contended , and most ably contended , for a reformation in our poetic diction , as far as ...
... Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of the cottager . As far then as Mr. Wordsworth in his pre- face contended , and most ably contended , for a reformation in our poetic diction , as far as ...
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... MILTON , in opposition to an established liturgy , presents as a fair specimen of common extemporary devotion , and such as we might expect to hear from every self - inspired minister of a conventicle ! And I reflect with delight , how ...
... MILTON , in opposition to an established liturgy , presents as a fair specimen of common extemporary devotion , and such as we might expect to hear from every self - inspired minister of a conventicle ! And I reflect with delight , how ...
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... Milton himself . " He then quotes Gray's sonnet- " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ...
... Milton himself . " He then quotes Gray's sonnet- " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join , Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ...
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... Milton , or from Eschylus to Shakspeare ; and to strike out ( in thought I mean ) every instance of this kind . If the num- ber of these fancied erasures did not startle him ; or if he continued to deem the work improved by their total ...
... Milton , or from Eschylus to Shakspeare ; and to strike out ( in thought I mean ) every instance of this kind . If the num- ber of these fancied erasures did not startle him ; or if he continued to deem the work improved by their total ...
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Side 12 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Side 67 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...
Side 52 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Side 38 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings,...
Side 2 - In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Side 18 - It has been before observed that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion...
Side 139 - 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.
Side 174 - And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: 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.
Side 20 - ... with him: Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose ; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Side 64 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.