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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... fires are visible , Which , rushing upward , make a light in the sky , And let the neighbors know , who may perhaps Bring help across the sea ; so from the head Of great Achilles went up an effulgence . Upon the trench he stood ...
... fires are visible , Which , rushing upward , make a light in the sky , And let the neighbors know , who may perhaps Bring help across the sea ; so from the head Of great Achilles went up an effulgence . Upon the trench he stood ...
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... fire Upon the dreadful head of the great - minded one Burning ; for bright - eyed Pallas made it burn . Thrice o'er the trench divine Achilles shouted ; And thrice the Trojans and their great allies Roil'd back ; and twelve of all their ...
... fire Upon the dreadful head of the great - minded one Burning ; for bright - eyed Pallas made it burn . Thrice o'er the trench divine Achilles shouted ; And thrice the Trojans and their great allies Roil'd back ; and twelve of all their ...
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... fire , or than the round- ness and order of the globe we live on is a clog to the freedom and variety that abound within its sphere . Verse is no domi- nator over the poet , except inasmuch as the bond is reciprocal , and the poet ...
... fire , or than the round- ness and order of the globe we live on is a clog to the freedom and variety that abound within its sphere . Verse is no domi- nator over the poet , except inasmuch as the bond is reciprocal , and the poet ...
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... Blow winds and cràck your chèeks ? ràge ! blow ! You catărăcts and hurricànoes , spòut , Till you have drènch'd our steeples , drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thoùght - èxecuting fìres , Vaùnt couriers 26 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
... Blow winds and cràck your chèeks ? ràge ! blow ! You catărăcts and hurricànoes , spòut , Till you have drènch'd our steeples , drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thoùght - èxecuting fìres , Vaùnt couriers 26 AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION.
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... fìres , Vaùnt couriers of òak - cleaving thunderbolts , Singe my white head ! and thòu , àll - shaking thunder , Strike flat the thick rotundity o ' the world ! Lear . Unexpected locations of the accent double this force , and render it ...
... fìres , Vaùnt couriers of òak - cleaving thunderbolts , Singe my white head ! and thòu , àll - shaking thunder , Strike flat the thick rotundity o ' the world ! Lear . Unexpected locations of the accent double this force , and render it ...
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