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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... write equally to the purpose , except when they can dismiss everything from their minds but the like simple truth . In the beautiful poem of " Sir Eger , Sir Graham , and Sir Gray - Steel " ( see it in Ellis's Specimens , or Laing's ...
... write equally to the purpose , except when they can dismiss everything from their minds but the like simple truth . In the beautiful poem of " Sir Eger , Sir Graham , and Sir Gray - Steel " ( see it in Ellis's Specimens , or Laing's ...
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... write a commentary , as it were , of his own , on such sufficing passages of nature , and be thanked for the addition . There is an instance of this kind in Warner , an old Elizabethan poet , than which I know nothing sweeter in the ...
... write a commentary , as it were , of his own , on such sufficing passages of nature , and be thanked for the addition . There is an instance of this kind in Warner , an old Elizabethan poet , than which I know nothing sweeter in the ...
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... write in verse ; and that , if he were unable to do so , he would not , and could not , deserve his title . Verse to the true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same ...
... write in verse ; and that , if he were unable to do so , he would not , and could not , deserve his title . Verse to the true poet is no clog . It is idly called a trammel and a difficulty . It is a help . It springs from the same ...
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... write scent , is derived a sentiendo . The word is thus frequently spelt by Spenser . - TODD . 21 " A diverse dream . ” — “ A dream , " says Upton , " that would occasion diversity or distraction ; or a frightful , hideous dream , from ...
... write scent , is derived a sentiendo . The word is thus frequently spelt by Spenser . - TODD . 21 " A diverse dream . ” — “ A dream , " says Upton , " that would occasion diversity or distraction ; or a frightful , hideous dream , from ...
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... write fustian for the town , in order to rule over it ; subjected him to the charge of impiety , probably for nothing but too scorn- fully treating irreverent notions of the Deity ; and brought him , in the prime of his life , to a ...
... write fustian for the town , in order to rule over it ; subjected him to the charge of impiety , probably for nothing but too scorn- fully treating irreverent notions of the Deity ; and brought him , in the prime of his life , to a ...
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