Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 páginas |
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... things that give birth to poetic feeling , which would be as idle as to reckon up all the things that make one angry ; but we have to determine that state or mood of the mind called poetic . The definition must put no school beyond its ...
... things that give birth to poetic feeling , which would be as idle as to reckon up all the things that make one angry ; but we have to determine that state or mood of the mind called poetic . The definition must put no school beyond its ...
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... things instead of one to be defined ; first , that frame of the mind wherein poetry is felt ; next , that mood of mind wherein it is uttered - poetry , and the art of poetry . This distinction will henceforward be observed , at least ...
... things instead of one to be defined ; first , that frame of the mind wherein poetry is felt ; next , that mood of mind wherein it is uttered - poetry , and the art of poetry . This distinction will henceforward be observed , at least ...
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... thing . Whatsoever we do has happiness for its last end , but with poesy it is the first as well as the last . This is not all , however ; the tie is much closer . Poesy is not only meant for pleasure , but is founded on pleasure , and ...
... thing . Whatsoever we do has happiness for its last end , but with poesy it is the first as well as the last . This is not all , however ; the tie is much closer . Poesy is not only meant for pleasure , but is founded on pleasure , and ...
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... thing as pain . And in fact , without mocking our own distress , we might be infidel of pain , as men of science are infidel of cold . For even at the freezing point of carbonic acid gas , between which and freezing water there is a ...
... thing as pain . And in fact , without mocking our own distress , we might be infidel of pain , as men of science are infidel of cold . For even at the freezing point of carbonic acid gas , between which and freezing water there is a ...
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... things which we hope and run after , becomes at once the fire and the fuel ( úró- Deσis Kai vn ) of all that we dread and shun . We must confine ourselves to inward and necessary condi- tions . Pleasure , then , may be defined to be ...
... things which we hope and run after , becomes at once the fire and the fuel ( úró- Deσis Kai vn ) of all that we dread and shun . We must confine ourselves to inward and necessary condi- tions . Pleasure , then , may be defined to be ...
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activity Æneid Aristotle artist Bacon beautiful believe belongs blank verse called chiefly Christian classical Clement of Rome cloth critics Divine doctrine doubt drama dramatic art dramatists Dugald Stewart E. S. DALLAS endeavours English epic Euripides Euroclydon expression fact faculty faith former Freedom genius give Greek happiness heart heaven Homer human idea Iliad imagery imagination imitative Immortality instinct Jeremy Collier JULIA KAVANAGH 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 post 8vo present prose reader reality reason regard remarkable rhyme romantic seen self-consciousness sense Shakespere simile simply Sir Philip Sidney song Sophocles soul speak spirit stanza tell theory things thought tion true truly truth uncon unconsciousness utterance whole words Wordsworth writing
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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 105 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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 145 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 54 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already.
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...