Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... fact an unfounded opinion . But those who deny it are placed in the very awkward position of gainsaying that of which confessedly they know nothing . If you cannot understand the difference between touch and sight , you must have been ...
... fact an unfounded opinion . But those who deny it are placed in the very awkward position of gainsaying that of which confessedly they know nothing . If you cannot understand the difference between touch and sight , you must have been ...
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... fact that it is imitative and truthful , the latter on the fact that it is creative or feigned . And yet how thoroughly these are accidental is herein shown , that while Plato , in his Banquet , and by the mouth of Socrates himself ...
... fact that it is imitative and truthful , the latter on the fact that it is creative or feigned . And yet how thoroughly these are accidental is herein shown , that while Plato , in his Banquet , and by the mouth of Socrates himself ...
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... fact that both the dreamer and the thinker , the singer and the sayer , have declared the immediate aim of poesy to be pleasure . They are at war on many another point , but here they are at one . It is the pleasure of a truth , says ...
... fact that both the dreamer and the thinker , the singer and the sayer , have declared the immediate aim of poesy to be pleasure . They are at war on many another point , but here they are at one . It is the pleasure of a truth , says ...
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... , however , there is here at any rate no call for such extreme views : it is reason enough why poesy should treat of sorrow that we know so little of weal / except through woe - a fact so well understood that INTRODUCTION . 11.
... , however , there is here at any rate no call for such extreme views : it is reason enough why poesy should treat of sorrow that we know so little of weal / except through woe - a fact so well understood that INTRODUCTION . 11.
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Eneas Sweetland Dallas. except through woe - a fact so well understood that it has passed into proverbial wit , as when Erskine wrote to Lady Payne , " He never knew pleasure who never knew pain . " Moreover , it always treats of a ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas. except through woe - a fact so well understood that it has passed into proverbial wit , as when Erskine wrote to Lady Payne , " He never knew pleasure who never knew pain . " Moreover , it always treats of a ...
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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...