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" Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth^ not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by... "
Prose Writings of Wordsworth
por William Wordsworth - 1893 - 198 páginas
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Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors with Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 490 páginas
...that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing. It is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing upon...carried alive into the heart by passion, — truth which ia its own testimony, which gives competence and confidence to the tribunal to which it appeals, and...
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Prefaces and Essays on Poetry: With a Letter to Lady Beaumont

William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 páginas
...object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon exter' nal testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion;...which is its own testimony,- which gives competence 5 and confidence to the tribunal to wh^ch it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal. \ Poetry...
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The Prelude to Poetry: The English Poets in the Defence and ..., Volumen10

Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 páginas
...Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not ^ standing...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Lincoln Literary Collection, Designed for School-room and Family Circle

John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 páginas
...that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing. It is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing upon...tribunal. Poetry is the image of Man and Nature. The poet writes under one restriction only, namely, the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human...
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Macaulay's Essay on Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 páginas
...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind. " The object of poetry is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing upon...testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion." — WORDSWORTH. " Poetry secretes the ideal; therefore poetry is a hunger of the soul." — VICTOR...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen10

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 578 páginas
...that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing; it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative; not standing upon...passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced ..., Volumen10

David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 páginas
...that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing; it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing upon...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Wordsworth's Literary Criticism

William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 páginas
...Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth^ not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon...and;' nature. The obstacles which stand in the way of I the fidelity of .the Biographer and Historian, and of their consequent utility, are incalculably...
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A Handbook of Literary Criticism: An Analysis of Literary Forms in Prose and ...

William Henry Sheran - 1905 - 602 páginas
...that poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon...to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives it from the same tribunal. Poetry is the image of man and nature. The obstacles which stand in the...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 páginas
...that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon...passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity- to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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