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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... grace . Mu- sic and painting are proud to be related to poetry , and poetry loves and is proud of them . Poetry begins where matter of fact or of science ceases to be merely such , and to exhibit a further truth ; that is to say , the ...
... grace . Mu- sic and painting are proud to be related to poetry , and poetry loves and is proud of them . Poetry begins where matter of fact or of science ceases to be merely such , and to exhibit a further truth ; that is to say , the ...
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... grace Guides every gesture , and obsequious love Attends on all her steps . " Triumphing o'er reason " is an old acquaintance of every- body's . " Paradise in her look " is from the Italian poets through Dryden . " Fair as the first ...
... grace Guides every gesture , and obsequious love Attends on all her steps . " Triumphing o'er reason " is an old acquaintance of every- body's . " Paradise in her look " is from the Italian poets through Dryden . " Fair as the first ...
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... grace and delicacy , of the sympathy with the pleasing and lovely . Spenser is full of it , -Shakspeare- Beaumont and Fletcher - Coleridge . Of Spenser's and Cole- ridge's versification it is the prevailing characteristic . Its main ...
... grace and delicacy , of the sympathy with the pleasing and lovely . Spenser is full of it , -Shakspeare- Beaumont and Fletcher - Coleridge . Of Spenser's and Cole- ridge's versification it is the prevailing characteristic . Its main ...
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... grace in these poets , and may be in others , by the power of being superior to it ; using it only with a classical air , and as a help lying next to them , instead of a salvation which they are obliged to seek . In jesting passages ...
... grace in these poets , and may be in others , by the power of being superior to it ; using it only with a classical air , and as a help lying next to them , instead of a salvation which they are obliged to seek . In jesting passages ...
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... grace : Her comely limbs - compos'd with decent care , Her body shaded - by a light cymarr , Her bosom to the view - was only bare ; Where two beginning paps were scarcely spied- For yet their places were but signified .-- The fanning ...
... grace : Her comely limbs - compos'd with decent care , Her body shaded - by a light cymarr , Her bosom to the view - was only bare ; Where two beginning paps were scarcely spied- For yet their places were but signified .-- The fanning ...
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