Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volumen2G. P. Putnam, 1848 - 804 páginas |
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... instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the contro- versy has been conducted by the assailants . " 5 [ " The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal . It was published as an ...
... instances , I grieve to say , the acrimonious passions , with which the contro- versy has been conducted by the assailants . " 5 [ " The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal . It was published as an ...
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... each component part . Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the dis- putants attaching each a different meaning to the same word ; and in few instances has this been more striking , 448 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA .
... each component part . Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the dis- putants attaching each a different meaning to the same word ; and in few instances has this been more striking , 448 BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA .
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge. and in few instances has this been more striking , than in dis putes concerning the present subject . If a man chooses to call every composition a poem , which is rhyme , or measure , or ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge. and in few instances has this been more striking , than in dis putes concerning the present subject . If a man chooses to call every composition a poem , which is rhyme , or measure , or ...
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... instance , there is nothing objec tionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from the sea - blast , seen at ...
... instance , there is nothing objec tionable , nothing which would preclude them from forming , in their proper place , part of a descriptive poem : Behold yon row of pines , that shorn and bow'd Bend from the sea - blast , seen at ...
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... instances of this ex- cellence , the reader's own memory will refer him to the LEAR , OTHELLO , in short to which ... instance of love in his 98th Sonnet . " From you have I been absent in the spring , When proud - pied April drest in ...
... instances of this ex- cellence , the reader's own memory will refer him to the LEAR , OTHELLO , in short to which ... instance of love in his 98th Sonnet . " From you have I been absent in the spring , When proud - pied April drest in ...
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Página 582 - 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 734 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Página 581 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...
Página 555 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Página 443 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation...
Página 451 - What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.
Página 520 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.
Página 442 - ... things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Página 580 - Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue, By sheddings from the pining 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...
Página 530 - Scot,' exclaims the lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling Field ; Field of Death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our Shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing Star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war...