Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Longman, 1833 - 394 páginas |
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... meaning of its movements ; for its harmonies are ever united with distinct feelings and emotions of the rational soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is not allied to language ...
... meaning of its movements ; for its harmonies are ever united with distinct feelings and emotions of the rational soul ; their associations are always clear and easily comprehensible : whereas music , when it is not allied to language ...
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... meaning , ) than either by reading aloud , or hearken- ing to another who reads . I appeal to those present who are most skilled in the delicacies of rhythmical periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished ...
... meaning , ) than either by reading aloud , or hearken- ing to another who reads . I appeal to those present who are most skilled in the delicacies of rhythmical periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished ...
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... meaning expressed , and the unutterable meanings implied in these few and plain words , cannot be too much admired . " The force of ( language ) The could no further go , " to parody a noble NO . II . 47 WHAT IS POETICAL .
... meaning expressed , and the unutterable meanings implied in these few and plain words , cannot be too much admired . " The force of ( language ) The could no further go , " to parody a noble NO . II . 47 WHAT IS POETICAL .
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... meaning , ) than either by reading aloud , or hearken- ing to another who reads . I appeal to those present who are most skilled in the delicacies of rhythmical periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished ...
... meaning , ) than either by reading aloud , or hearken- ing to another who reads . I appeal to those present who are most skilled in the delicacies of rhythmical periods , whether any recitation of verse , by the most accomplished ...
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... meaning expressed , and the unutterable meanings implied in these few and plain words , cannot be too much admired . " The force of ( language ) - could no further go , " to parody a NO . II . 47 WHAT IS POETICAL .
... meaning expressed , and the unutterable meanings implied in these few and plain words , cannot be too much admired . " The force of ( language ) - could no further go , " to parody a NO . II . 47 WHAT IS POETICAL .
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Página 25 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Página 171 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 61 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Página 240 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 51 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their...
Página 101 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 101 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Página 246 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Página 126 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Página 51 - LEAR. Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.