On Poetic Interpretation of Nature, Volumen28;Volumen381D. Douglas, 1877 - 270 páginas |
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... mind , and those which have been suggested by other writers . Whenever I have been aware that I was using thoughts not my own , I have tried to make due acknowledgment of this in the text . At the same time I would wish to acknow- ledge ...
... mind , and those which have been suggested by other writers . Whenever I have been aware that I was using thoughts not my own , I have tried to make due acknowledgment of this in the text . At the same time I would wish to acknow- ledge ...
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... mind , as part of Nature , but regard him rather as standing out from Nature , and surveying and using that great external entity which encompasses and confronts him at every turn , he being the contemplator , OF NATURE . 3.
... mind , as part of Nature , but regard him rather as standing out from Nature , and surveying and using that great external entity which encompasses and confronts him at every turn , he being the contemplator , OF NATURE . 3.
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... and beyond these , to other inquiries which no Physics can answer : How stand these phenomena to the thinking mind and feeling heart which contemplates them ? how came they to be as they are ? are 4 THE POETIC INTERPRETATION.
... and beyond these , to other inquiries which no Physics can answer : How stand these phenomena to the thinking mind and feeling heart which contemplates them ? how came they to be as they are ? are 4 THE POETIC INTERPRETATION.
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... mind as light , result in a perception of light . Light , therefore , is not a purely objective thing , but is something produced by the meeting of certain outward motions with a perceiving mind . Again , certain vibrations of the air ...
... mind as light , result in a perception of light . Light , therefore , is not a purely objective thing , but is something produced by the meeting of certain outward motions with a perceiving mind . Again , certain vibrations of the air ...
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... more apparent , if we may turn aside for a moment to reflect on the essence of that state of mind which we call the poetic , the genesis of that creation which we call Poetry . Whenever any 8 THE POETIC INTERPRETATION.
... more apparent , if we may turn aside for a moment to reflect on the essence of that state of mind which we call the poetic , the genesis of that creation which we call Poetry . Whenever any 8 THE POETIC INTERPRETATION.
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Allan Ramsay appearances aspect awaken beauty Book of Job breath Burns called calm Chaucer colour comes Cowper creation delight described Divine dwell earth Eclogues emotion English poetry expression face of Nature faculty faith feeling felt flowers forms Georgics Grasmere Greek heart heaven highest hills Homer human Iliad images imagination interpene interpret landscape language light living look Lucretius meaning mechanic philosophies mental metaphor Milton mind mood Mopsus moral mountains mythology native Nature's never night o'er objects observed Ossian outer world outward world passage passed Pathetic Fallacy philosophy physical poem poet poet's poetic present reason rural Ruskin scenery scenes Science scientific seen sense sentiment Shakespeare sight sole sister song sorrow soul speaks spectacle spirit Stopford Brooke tender Theocritus things Thomson thought tion true truth Universe utterance Virgil vivid Warwickshire whole wild wind wonder words Wordsworth
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Página 188 - And wait the' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains, vales, And forests seem, impatient, to demand The promised sweetness. Man superior walks Amid the glad creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander...
Página 168 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Página 37 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Página 166 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Página 196 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 203 - tis true; but gouty limb, Though on a sofa, may I never feel: For I have loved the rural walk through lanes Of grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep, And skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs; have loved the rural walk O'er hills, through valleys, and by rivers...
Página 194 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp ' shall now be laid ; That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds May love through life the soothing shade. Then maids and youths shall linger here ; And, while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell.
Página 205 - How oft upon yon eminence our pace Has slackened to a pause, and we have borne The ruffling wind, scarce conscious that it blew, While Admiration, feeding at the eye, And still unsated, dwelt upon the scene.
Página 196 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...