Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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Page iii
... Poet , it is true , is the son of his time ; but pity for him if he is its pupil , or even its favourite ! Let some beneficent deity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother , and nurse him with the milk of a better time ...
... Poet , it is true , is the son of his time ; but pity for him if he is its pupil , or even its favourite ! Let some beneficent deity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother , and nurse him with the milk of a better time ...
Page v
... poetry - of his aspirations for a brotherhood of love , his tender bewailings springing from a too sensitive spirit — his sympathy with woe , his adoration of beauty , as expressed in his poetry ; turn to these pages to gather proof of ...
... poetry - of his aspirations for a brotherhood of love , his tender bewailings springing from a too sensitive spirit — his sympathy with woe , his adoration of beauty , as expressed in his poetry ; turn to these pages to gather proof of ...
Page vi
... poetry . The fragments that follow form an introduction to " The Banquet " or " Symposium ” of Plato - and that noble piece of writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of ...
... poetry . The fragments that follow form an introduction to " The Banquet " or " Symposium ” of Plato - and that noble piece of writing follows ; which for the first time introduces the Athenian to the English reader in a style worthy of ...
Page vii
... poet , reasoning in favour of humanity and refinement , must possess . It alleges all the arguments that an imaginative man , who can vividly figure the ... Poetry . whole - and a portion less imperfect , less suffering PREFACE . vii.
... poet , reasoning in favour of humanity and refinement , must possess . It alleges all the arguments that an imaginative man , who can vividly figure the ... Poetry . whole - and a portion less imperfect , less suffering PREFACE . vii.
Page viii
... poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked with him in the waves , he would have presented the world with a complete theory of mind ; a theory to which Berkeley , Coleridge ...
... poetry in his youth , and had he not been lost to us early , so that all his vaster projects were wrecked with him in the waves , he would have presented the world with a complete theory of mind ; a theory to which Berkeley , Coleridge ...
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