Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... soul ; but only here and there , not always , however , where it may be hottest , it breaks out into visible fire . Here , then , are two things instead of one to be defined ; first , that frame of the mind wherein poetry is felt ; next ...
... soul ; but only here and there , not always , however , where it may be hottest , it breaks out into visible fire . Here , then , are two things instead of one to be defined ; first , that frame of the mind wherein poetry is felt ; next ...
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... soul , or by reading the pages of a book , or by gazing on the broadside of na- ture ; and that to answer the other question , or what is the state of the mind giving birth to song , belongs rather to the whole art of composition or ...
... soul , or by reading the pages of a book , or by gazing on the broadside of na- ture ; and that to answer the other question , or what is the state of the mind giving birth to song , belongs rather to the whole art of composition or ...
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... — The harmoni- ous and unconscious activity of the soul . This definition recognises three great laws , which are to be considered in their order . CHAPTER I. THE LAW OF ACTIVITY . IN the first THE NATURE OF PLEASURE . 17.
... — The harmoni- ous and unconscious activity of the soul . This definition recognises three great laws , which are to be considered in their order . CHAPTER I. THE LAW OF ACTIVITY . IN the first THE NATURE OF PLEASURE . 17.
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... soul is on a rack , the rack of rest , To souls most adverse ; action all their joy . " Many also mistake the day of rest for a day of idleness ; and in the same spirit , Hobbes , while he places the felicity of this life in action ...
... soul is on a rack , the rack of rest , To souls most adverse ; action all their joy . " Many also mistake the day of rest for a day of idleness ; and in the same spirit , Hobbes , while he places the felicity of this life in action ...
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... make up that lasting enjoyment which is called happiness . Pleasure , says Aristotle , is a motion of the soul while it is still and at all points felt settling into its own na- ture ; ( Rhetoric , i . 11 , § 22 The Law of Harmony,
... make up that lasting enjoyment which is called happiness . Pleasure , says Aristotle , is a motion of the soul while it is still and at all points felt settling into its own na- ture ; ( Rhetoric , i . 11 , § 22 The Law of Harmony,
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action activity Æschylus Aristotle artist Bacon beautiful believe belongs blank verse called chiefly Christ Christian classical Clement of Rome comparison couplet critics Divine doctrine doubt drama dramatic art dramatist Dugald Stewart employed endeavours English epic Euripides Euroclydon expression fact faculty faith former Freedom genius give Greek happiness heart heaven Hebrew Homer human idea Iliad imagery imagination imitative Immortality instinct Jeremy Collier kinds of poesy language latter law of poetry least less look lyrical manner means metaphor metre mind modern narrative nature never object perhaps philosopher pleasure plurality poem poet poetic feeling present prose reality reason regard remarkable rhyme romantic seen self-consciousness sense Shakespere shown simile simply Sir Philip Sidney song Sophocles soul speak spirit stanza tell theory things Thomas à Kempis thought tion true truly truth uncon utterance whole words Wordsworth
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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...