Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Volym 2Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... remarked to possess two great attributes - those of universality and individuality . But they could never unite these two if the corresponding faculties were not united in the versatile imagination , profound moral sense , and accurate ...
... remarked to possess two great attributes - those of universality and individuality . But they could never unite these two if the corresponding faculties were not united in the versatile imagination , profound moral sense , and accurate ...
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... remarked , that with nations also the poetical period is that of early youth . And the reason of this is , that when men have ceased to be pressed down by the selfish wants of savage life , and not yet made selfish by the con- ventions ...
... remarked , that with nations also the poetical period is that of early youth . And the reason of this is , that when men have ceased to be pressed down by the selfish wants of savage life , and not yet made selfish by the con- ventions ...
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... remarked on as a large part of Shakespeare's greatness , and which he described as a power " of being in uncertainties , mysteries , doubts , without any irritable reaching after fact and reason , " 1 — a capability perhaps ...
... remarked on as a large part of Shakespeare's greatness , and which he described as a power " of being in uncertainties , mysteries , doubts , without any irritable reaching after fact and reason , " 1 — a capability perhaps ...
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... remarked , but the circumstance has been hardly adequately accounted for . And yet this deficiency could never have excited surprise if the true character of ancient poetry had been understood . That moun- tain scenery should have been ...
... remarked , but the circumstance has been hardly adequately accounted for . And yet this deficiency could never have excited surprise if the true character of ancient poetry had been understood . That moun- tain scenery should have been ...
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... remarked upon the difference between our philosophic term " understanding , " and the corre- sponding Greek word enμn , the first syllable of which means , not under , but upon . It is thus , he indicates , that modern intelligence ...
... remarked upon the difference between our philosophic term " understanding , " and the corre- sponding Greek word enμn , the first syllable of which means , not under , but upon . It is thus , he indicates , that modern intelligence ...
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admiration Aloysius ancient Artemidora aspirations beauty believe belongs Burgundy Cassinel character chiefly Christ Christian classical creature delight divine drama dramatists Duke of Burgundy Dunstan earth elevation Elgiva English poetry Epicurean eternal exist faculty Faith fancy Fiordeliza genius gift grace Greek poetry hand heart heaven higher human ideal imagination inspiration instinct intellectual Keats knowledge Landor's Laodamia Leolf less light lives Lord Maid's Tragedy man's matter mind modern Montargis moral mountains nature never noble objects once Pagan Pantheism passion pathos perfect Philip van Artevelde philosophy play poem poet poetic possessed prayer reality reason region religion religious remarked revealed reverence ribaldry Rosalba Ruggiero Saints scene sense sentiment Shakespeare Shelley Silisco song sophisms soul Spadone spirit strength supernatural sympathies Taylor's temperament thee Theism theme things thou thought tion Tragedy true truth versatility virtue voice wonderful words Wordsworth youth
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Sida 116 - I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Sida 180 - He is retired as noontide dew Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Sida 120 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Sida 141 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
Sida 120 - Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self — It is everything and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade ; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. — It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.
Sida 116 - Its touches of beauty should never be half-way, thereby making the reader breathless, instead of content. The rise, the progress, the setting of imagery, should, like the sun, come natural to him, shine over him, and set soberly, although in magnificence, leaving him in the luxury of twilight.
Sida 123 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Sida 123 - Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood...
Sida 181 - Without hands a man might have feet, and could still walk : but, consider it, — without morality, intellect were impossible for him ; a thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all ! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathise with it : that is, be virtuously related to it.
Sida 182 - ... with it : that is, be virtuously related to it. If he have not the justice to put down his own .selfishness at every turn, the courage to stand by the dangerous-true at every turn, how shall he know ? His virtues, all of them, will lie recorded in his knowledge. Nature, with her truth, remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous for ever a sealed book : what such can know of Nature is mean, superficial, small ; for the uses of the day merely.