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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Page 37
... lànd From Eden over Pòntus - and the pèol Mæòtis - up beyond the river Ob ; Downward as fàr antàrctic ; -and in length Wèst from Oròntes - to the ocean bàrr'd At Dariën - thènce to the land whère flows Ganges and Indus . - Thùs the òrb ...
... lànd From Eden over Pòntus - and the pèol Mæòtis - up beyond the river Ob ; Downward as fàr antàrctic ; -and in length Wèst from Oròntes - to the ocean bàrr'd At Dariën - thènce to the land whère flows Ganges and Indus . - Thùs the òrb ...
Page 51
... land " them- selves are " gone and spent , " and your riches must lie in the regions of the " unknown , " then Spenser is " most excellent . " His remoteness from every - day life is the reason perhaps why Somers and Chatham admired him ...
... land " them- selves are " gone and spent , " and your riches must lie in the regions of the " unknown , " then Spenser is " most excellent . " His remoteness from every - day life is the reason perhaps why Somers and Chatham admired him ...
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... land of Faerie , that is , of mental space . The poet has placed you in a dream , a charmed sleep : and you neither wish nor have the power to inquire , where you are , or how you got there . " Literary Remains , vol . i . , p . 94 ...
... land of Faerie , that is , of mental space . The poet has placed you in a dream , a charmed sleep : and you neither wish nor have the power to inquire , where you are , or how you got there . " Literary Remains , vol . i . , p . 94 ...
Page 59
... land . But nobody talks so much about the sea , or its inhabitants , or its voyagers , as Spenser . He was well acquainted with the Irish Channel . Coleridge observes , ( ut sup . ) that “ one of Spenser's arts is that of alliteration ...
... land . But nobody talks so much about the sea , or its inhabitants , or its voyagers , as Spenser . He was well acquainted with the Irish Channel . Coleridge observes , ( ut sup . ) that “ one of Spenser's arts is that of alliteration ...
Page 60
... land - side , with dogs lying " far before it ; " and the moonbeams reach it , though the sun never does . The passage is imitated from Ovid ( Lib . ii . , ver . 592 ) , but with wonderful concentration , and superior home appeal to the ...
... land - side , with dogs lying " far before it ; " and the moonbeams reach it , though the sun never does . The passage is imitated from Ovid ( Lib . ii . , ver . 592 ) , but with wonderful concentration , and superior home appeal to the ...
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