Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... outweigh and outnumber our sorrows , we seem to be little aware of it ; and we seem to be better acquainted with the miseries than with the happiness of life . This is shadowed forth by the fact , that in at least the English language.
... outweigh and outnumber our sorrows , we seem to be little aware of it ; and we seem to be better acquainted with the miseries than with the happiness of life . This is shadowed forth by the fact , that in at least the English language.
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... better than an itch . Even those - the Brahmins - who push the doctrine to the furthest extreme , making it the highest happiness to sit still and think of nothing , cannot be so is understood , inasmuch as the end which they propose 20 ...
... better than an itch . Even those - the Brahmins - who push the doctrine to the furthest extreme , making it the highest happiness to sit still and think of nothing , cannot be so is understood , inasmuch as the end which they propose 20 ...
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... better still , the more entirely we give ourselves up to the worship and ( are we not allowed to call it ? ) the fellowship of the Almighty Father ; in a word , the more self is forgotten , and the mind sent abroad , for us the ...
... better still , the more entirely we give ourselves up to the worship and ( are we not allowed to call it ? ) the fellowship of the Almighty Father ; in a word , the more self is forgotten , and the mind sent abroad , for us the ...
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... one in poetic , the other in unpoetic mood , the former has a pleasure more refined , keener , better far than that which is felt by the latter . CHAPTER I. THE LAW OF IMAGINATION . BUT by the 44 THE NATURE OF POETRY .
... one in poetic , the other in unpoetic mood , the former has a pleasure more refined , keener , better far than that which is felt by the latter . CHAPTER I. THE LAW OF IMAGINATION . BUT by the 44 THE NATURE OF POETRY .
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... better . For although it be most true that pure spirit can easily as a sunbeam soar to altitudes which , from want of buoyant air , the wings of imagination can never approach , yet whenever it ventures to employ language ( and Johnson ...
... better . For although it be most true that pure spirit can easily as a sunbeam soar to altitudes which , from want of buoyant air , the wings of imagination can never approach , yet whenever it ventures to employ language ( and Johnson ...
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Página 144 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Página 203 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 187 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 293 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Página 106 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página 193 - The stars of heaven a course are taught Too high above our human thought ; Ye may be found if ye are sought, And, as we gaze, we know. Ye dwell beside our paths and homes, Our paths of sin, our homes of sorrow; And guilty man, where'er he roams, Your innocent mirth may borrow. The birds of air before us fleet, They cannot brook our shame to meet ; But we may taste your solace sweet, And come again to-morrow. Ye fearless in your nests abide ; Nor may we scorn, too proudly wise, Your silent lessons,...
Página 54 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified; perfection cannot be improved.
Página 34 - My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Página 37 - Of honourable gain; these fields, these hills Which were his living Being, even more Than his own blood — what could they less ? had laid Strong hold on his affections, were to him A pleasurable feeling of blind love, The pleasure which there is in life itself. On the other hand, in the poems which are pitched in a lower key, as the HARRY GILL...