Poetics, an Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pages |
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... writers ; and I believe that it will thus stand the test given by Leibnitz to ascertain the soundness of any body of thought , that it should gather into one united household , not by heaping and jumbling together , but by reconciling ...
... writers ; and I believe that it will thus stand the test given by Leibnitz to ascertain the soundness of any body of thought , that it should gather into one united household , not by heaping and jumbling together , but by reconciling ...
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... writers . Other writers , although doubt- less at heart they admit both , yet fall into a loose way of referring , some to the first alone , some only to the last . Of the former , Jeremy Collier may be taken as a specimen , when in one ...
... writers . Other writers , although doubt- less at heart they admit both , yet fall into a loose way of referring , some to the first alone , some only to the last . Of the former , Jeremy Collier may be taken as a specimen , when in one ...
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... writers confine themselves . This should be noted ; because it is to the parallel laws of poetry that they have been tied . On the other hand , it will be found , that later authors have paid more at- tention to that which is the third ...
... writers confine themselves . This should be noted ; because it is to the parallel laws of poetry that they have been tied . On the other hand , it will be found , that later authors have paid more at- tention to that which is the third ...
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... writers so often refer , sometimes speaking of it simply as glorious liberty , at other times , and with equal truth , regarding it as the very essence of joy . And that word which denotes the very highest pitch of enjoyment , to wit ...
... writers so often refer , sometimes speaking of it simply as glorious liberty , at other times , and with equal truth , regarding it as the very essence of joy . And that word which denotes the very highest pitch of enjoyment , to wit ...
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... writer cannot become a critic worthy of the name , without first preying upon a brother penman . It is indeed a question whether we are not now going to the other extreme of praising so lavishly , so indiscri- minately , that the praise ...
... writer cannot become a critic worthy of the name , without first preying upon a brother penman . It is indeed a question whether we are not now going to the other extreme of praising so lavishly , so indiscri- minately , that the praise ...
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Page 144 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...
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Page 34 - My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Page 37 - Of honourable gain; these fields, these hills Which were his living Being, even more Than his own blood — what could they less ? had laid Strong hold on his affections, were to him A pleasurable feeling of blind love, The pleasure which there is in life itself. On the other hand, in the poems which are pitched in a lower key, as the HARRY GILL...