Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, "What is Poetry?"Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 pages |
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... delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the highest ...
... delightful allegory , and Pope's paragon of mock - heroics , would have been found in this volume , but for that intentional , artificial imitation , even in the former , which removes them at too great a distance from the highest ...
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... delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the remotest imaginations of the poets may often be found to have the closest ...
... delight of poetic readers . And as feeling is the earliest teacher , and perception the only final proof , of things the most demonstrable by science , so the remotest imaginations of the poets may often be found to have the closest ...
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... delights as much to people nature with smiling ideal sympathies , as wit does to bring antipathies together , and make them strike light on absurdity . Fancy , however , is not incapable of sympathy with Imagination . She is often found ...
... delights as much to people nature with smiling ideal sympathies , as wit does to bring antipathies together , and make them strike light on absurdity . Fancy , however , is not incapable of sympathy with Imagination . She is often found ...
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... delighted equally to rule and to obey . Verse is the final proof to the poet that his mastery over his art is complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ...
... delighted equally to rule and to obey . Verse is the final proof to the poet that his mastery over his art is complete . It is the shutting up of his powers in " measureful content ; " the answer of form to his spirit ; of strength and ...
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... delightful . Their greatness proves itself by the same truth of nature , and sustained power , though in a different way ... delight ; and as the former keep you perpetually alive to thought or passion , so from the latter you receive a ...
... delightful . Their greatness proves itself by the same truth of nature , and sustained power , though in a different way ... delight ; and as the former keep you perpetually alive to thought or passion , so from the latter you receive a ...
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