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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... flower of light , says Ben Jonson ; and poetry then shows us the beauty of the flower in all its mystery and splendor . If it be asked , how we know perceptions like these to be true , the answer is , by the fact of their existence ...
... flower of light , says Ben Jonson ; and poetry then shows us the beauty of the flower in all its mystery and splendor . If it be asked , how we know perceptions like these to be true , the answer is , by the fact of their existence ...
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... flowers and the flocks are made to sympathize with a man's death ; or , in the Italian poet , the river flowing by the sleeping Angelica seems talking of love- Parea che l'erba le fiorisse intorno , Ed ' amor ragionasse quella riva ...
... flowers and the flocks are made to sympathize with a man's death ; or , in the Italian poet , the river flowing by the sleeping Angelica seems talking of love- Parea che l'erba le fiorisse intorno , Ed ' amor ragionasse quella riva ...
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... flower imperial ; And for the fringe it all along With azure hare - bells shall be hung . Of lilies shall the pillows be With down stuft of the butterfly . Of fancy , so full of gusto as to border on imagination , Sir John Suckling , in ...
... flower imperial ; And for the fringe it all along With azure hare - bells shall be hung . Of lilies shall the pillows be With down stuft of the butterfly . Of fancy , so full of gusto as to border on imagination , Sir John Suckling , in ...
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... flowers . grove ; that is to say , made of trees that were once human be- ings , an aggravation ( according to his customary improve- ment upon horrors ) of a like solitary instance in Virgil , which Spenser has also imitated in his ...
... flowers . grove ; that is to say , made of trees that were once human be- ings , an aggravation ( according to his customary improve- ment upon horrors ) of a like solitary instance in Virgil , which Spenser has also imitated in his ...
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... flowers of Claudian , and retained them by the side of the others ? Proserpine was an unwilling bride , though she became a reconciled wife . She deserved to enjoy her Sicilian flowers ; and besides , in possessing a nature supe- rior ...
... flowers of Claudian , and retained them by the side of the others ? Proserpine was an unwilling bride , though she became a reconciled wife . She deserved to enjoy her Sicilian flowers ; and besides , in possessing a nature supe- rior ...
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auld bard Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson bless bonnie breath Burns's called character charm Chaucer dear death delight divine doth dream Dumfries earth Ellisland eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy fancy fear feeling felt flowers frae gauger genius hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil hour human imagination inspired knew labor lady light live look Lycidas Macbeth Mauchline melancholy Milton mind mirth moral morning Mossgiel muse nature never noble o'er passage passion perhaps pity pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride rhyme Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish Shakspeare Shanter sing sleep song soul Spenser spirit stanza sugh sweet Sycorax Tamburlaine tears tell thee things Thomson thou art thought tion TITANIA truth verse voice Whyles wife William Burnes wind witch wood words young youth