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?"Smith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 345 pages |
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... grace . Music 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 . Music 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 idea ...
... 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 idea ...
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... grace and delicacy , ―of the sympathy with the pleasing and lovely . Spenser is full of it , -Shakspeare - Beau- mont and Fletcher - Coleridge . Of Spenser's and Coleridge's versification it is the prevailing charac- teristic . Its main ...
... grace and delicacy , ―of the sympathy with the pleasing and lovely . Spenser is full of it , -Shakspeare - Beau- mont and Fletcher - Coleridge . Of Spenser's and Coleridge's versification it is the prevailing charac- teristic . 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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Page 262 - And all their echoes, mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays...
Page 238 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 189 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 340 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 343 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 247 - Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Page 339 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 265 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 248 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 286 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.