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, 1845 - 345 pages |
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... greatest poetry includes that essence , but the essence does not present itself in exclusive combination with the greatest form of poetry . It varies in that respect from the most tremendous to the most playful effusions , and from ...
... greatest poetry includes that essence , but the essence does not present itself in exclusive combination with the greatest form of poetry . It varies in that respect from the most tremendous to the most playful effusions , and from ...
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... and , next to Love and Beauty , which are its parents , is the greatest proof to man of the pleasure to be found in all things , and of the probable riches of infinitude . B Poetry is a passion , * because it seeks the.
... and , next to Love and Beauty , which are its parents , is the greatest proof to man of the pleasure to be found in all things , and of the probable riches of infinitude . B Poetry is a passion , * because it seeks the.
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... greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye , and whatsoever of music can be conveyed by sound and proportion without singing or instrumentation . But it far surpasses those divine arts ...
... greatest poet . Poetry includes whatsoever of painting can be made visible to the mind's eye , and whatsoever of music can be conveyed by sound and proportion without singing or instrumentation . But it far surpasses those divine arts ...
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... greatest proofs of his genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in ...
... greatest proofs of his genius consists in his leaving it to stand alone , illustrated by nothing but the light of its own tears or smiles , its own wonder , might , or playfulness . Hence the complete effect of many a simple passage in ...
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... greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a “ literary world , ” and were not perplexed by a heap of notions and opinions , or by doubts how emotion ought to be expressed . The greatest of ...
... greatest early poets , such as Homer and Chaucer , who flourished before the existence of a “ literary world , ” and were not perplexed by a heap of notions and opinions , or by doubts how emotion ought to be expressed . The greatest of ...
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Page 265 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 298 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Page 324 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: — Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 345 - 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 257 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook: And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 247 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 249 - 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 299 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden in a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower. Like a glow-worm golden in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view.
Page 172 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 181 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house : I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.